J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 96(7): 489-491, 1995

Case report

REPORT OF A CASE OF BILATERAL ADRENAL TERATOMA WITH CA19-9 PRODUCTION

The First Department of Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Yasuhiro Sudo, Makoto Kobayashi, Norio Kako, Tadashi Iwabuchi, Shoko Iwabuchi, Hisaaki Koie

Reports of adrenal teratomas in adults are rare, and all of adrenal teratomas which were reported in the literature were found in unilateral adrenal gland. This is the first reported case of CA19-9 producing huge teratomas found in bilateral adrenal gland.
Twenty-two year-old woman was hospitalized for an episode of abdominal growing mass and an abnormality of high CA19-9 serum level. Operatively, bilateral adrenal tumors were removed, and the weights of right one and left one were 3976g and 618g, respectively. Histological diagnosis of both tumors was mature teratoma. Immunohistochemical findings revealed CA19-9 was produced from intestinal epithelium in teratoma.

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