Surgical Management of Giant L2 Adrenal Neuroblastoma in Adult Male

Bikash Bikram Thapa; Sanjay Yadav; Sujit Pant; Pratik Rajkarnikar; Pankaj Mandal

doi:10.1155/2020/8890223

Surgical Management of Giant L2 Adrenal Neuroblastoma in Adult Male

Case Rep Urol. 2020 Dec 5:2020:8890223. doi: 10.1155/2020/8890223. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Bikash Bikram Thapa¹, Sanjay Yadav¹, Sujit Pant², Pratik Rajkarnikar³, Pankaj Mandal³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal.
² Department of Radio Diagnosis, College of Medicine, Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal.
³ Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal.

Abstract

Neuroblastoma is an embryonal malignancy that arises from neural crest cells. Adult adrenal neuroblastoma is a rare disease, and less than 100 cases were reported in the literature. Adult neuroblastoma commonly presents with abdominal (retroperitoneal) lump and pain. A 35-year-old male patient presented with a giant (20 cm × 17 cm × 12 cm) nonfunctional left adrenal mass. He underwent en-bloc surgical excision of the left adrenal gland along with the left kidney. Histopathological examination revealed adrenal neuroblastoma (stage 2B, L2). We present here the surgical management of the rare adult adrenal neuroblastoma.

Publication types

Case Reports