Adrenocortical carcinoma

Case contributed by Hani Makky Al Salam
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Abdominal pain.

Patient Data

Age: 6 years
Gender: Female
x-ray

Left lower lobe atelectasis/consolidation with possible small pleural effusion.

AXR: Non-specific bowel gas pattern; again the left lower lobe process is appreciated.

ct

A large heterogeneously enhancing left adrenal lesion, suspicious for adrenocortical carcinoma.

Nuclear medicine

Physiologic uptake at the epiphyses in this growing skeleton. No abnormal uptake to suggest bony metastasis. 

Case Discussion

6 year old female with left adrenocortical carcinoma.

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