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(Looks Can Be Deceiving): Adrenal Teratoma Causing Diagnostic Difficulty, Mehwash Nadeem, Hammad Ather, M Nasir Sulaiman, Shahid Pervez
(Looks Can Be Deceiving): Adrenal Teratoma Causing Diagnostic Difficulty, Mehwash Nadeem, Hammad Ather, M Nasir Sulaiman, Shahid Pervez
Department of Surgery
Abstract
Teratomas are unusual tumours that derived from totipotent cells with their origin from more than one or usually all three germ cells. Here authors are presenting a case of primary retroperitoneal tumour that is a rare clinical entity. A 19-year-old male presented with right lumbar pain and was found to have complex cyst with large calcification in right adrenal gland on imaging. Intraoperatively, he was found to have a solid mass with areas of soft consistency, which was excised en bloc. On gross examination, the cyst contained pieces of bone, few teeth, and hairs entangled in mucinous material. On …