Adrenal adenoma

Case contributed by Ian Bickle
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Sigmoid cancer. Adrenal nodule on CT. Metastasis?

Patient Data

Age: 65 years
Gender: Male
mri
This study is a stack
Axial
T2
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Axial T2
fat sat
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Axial T1
in-phase
This study is a stack
Axial T1
out-of-phase
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Info

3 cm right adrenal nodule with intense signal dropout on out of phase imaging.

Normal left adrenal. Simple cysts in the kidneys. No other abnormality.

 

Case Discussion

A 'textbook' example of an adrenal adenoma.

Pronounced signal drop out on the out of phase images doesn't come any better than this.

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