Sudo Y, Kobayashi M, Kako N, Iwabuchi T, Iwabuchi S, Koie H
First Department of Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
Nihon Geka Gakkai Zasshi. 1995 Jul;96(7):489-91.
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.
