Primary adrenal gland carcinosarcoma associated with metastatic rectal cancer: a hitherto unreported collision tumor. 2011

Federica Bertolini, and Giulio Rossi, and Federica Fiocchi, and Marco Giacometti, and Annalisa Fontana, and Maria Chiara Gibertini, and Luca Roncucci, and Gabriele Luppi, and Pietro Torricelli, and Aldo Rossi, and Pier Franco Conte
Department of Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy. bertolini.federica@policlinico.mo.it

In this report we describe the case of a young woman with familial adenomatous polyposis who developed metastatic rectal cancer during pregnancy. At diagnosis, we decided to perform a transabdominal laparoscopic adrenalectomy, because of the high risk of bowel obstruction, and to define the origin of the adrenal gland lesion, suspected to be primary on the basis of imaging results. The histological specimen showed a collision tumor between an adrenal metastasis of a rectal tumor and a primary adrenal gland carcinosarcoma. The peculiarity of the case is due not only to its clinical presentation during pregnancy, but also to the presence of this uncommon adrenal collision tumor. A particular challenge for the clinician is to define the priority between these two tumors: the presence of two distinct and colliding aggressive neoplasms poses a problem in the choice of the best therapeutic approach, also given the impossibility to biopsy all metastatic sites. However, we decided to treat the patient as having a metastatic rectal cancer, because we had a solid histological confirmation of metastases.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007150 Immunohistochemistry Histochemical localization of immunoreactive substances using labeled antibodies as reagents. Immunocytochemistry,Immunogold Techniques,Immunogold-Silver Techniques,Immunohistocytochemistry,Immunolabeling Techniques,Immunogold Technics,Immunogold-Silver Technics,Immunolabeling Technics,Immunogold Silver Technics,Immunogold Silver Techniques,Immunogold Technic,Immunogold Technique,Immunogold-Silver Technic,Immunogold-Silver Technique,Immunolabeling Technic,Immunolabeling Technique,Technic, Immunogold,Technic, Immunogold-Silver,Technic, Immunolabeling,Technics, Immunogold,Technics, Immunogold-Silver,Technics, Immunolabeling,Technique, Immunogold,Technique, Immunogold-Silver,Technique, Immunolabeling,Techniques, Immunogold,Techniques, Immunogold-Silver,Techniques, Immunolabeling
D008279 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques. Chemical Shift Imaging,MR Tomography,MRI Scans,MRI, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Image,Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional,Magnetization Transfer Contrast Imaging,NMR Imaging,NMR Tomography,Tomography, NMR,Tomography, Proton Spin,fMRI,Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Imaging, Chemical Shift,Proton Spin Tomography,Spin Echo Imaging,Steady-State Free Precession MRI,Tomography, MR,Zeugmatography,Chemical Shift Imagings,Echo Imaging, Spin,Echo Imagings, Spin,Functional MRI,Functional MRIs,Image, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, NMR,Imaging, Spin Echo,Imagings, Chemical Shift,Imagings, Spin Echo,MRI Scan,MRIs, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Images,Resonance Image, Magnetic,Scan, MRI,Scans, MRI,Shift Imaging, Chemical,Shift Imagings, Chemical,Spin Echo Imagings,Steady State Free Precession MRI
D009378 Neoplasms, Multiple Primary Two or more abnormal growths of tissue occurring simultaneously and presumed to be of separate origin. The neoplasms may be histologically the same or different, and may be found in the same or different sites. Neoplasms, Synchronous,Neoplasms, Synchronous Multiple Primary,Multiple Primary Neoplasms,Multiple Primary Neoplasms, Synchronous,Synchronous Multiple Primary Neoplasms,Synchronous Neoplasms,Multiple Primary Neoplasm,Neoplasm, Multiple Primary,Neoplasm, Synchronous,Primary Neoplasm, Multiple,Primary Neoplasms, Multiple,Synchronous Neoplasm
D010535 Laparoscopy A procedure in which a laparoscope (LAPAROSCOPES) is inserted through a small incision near the navel to examine the abdominal and pelvic organs in the PERITONEAL CAVITY. If appropriate, biopsy or surgery can be performed during laparoscopy. Celioscopy,Laparoscopic Surgical Procedures,Peritoneoscopy,Surgical Procedures, Laparoscopic,Laparoscopic Assisted Surgery,Laparoscopic Surgery,Laparoscopic Surgical Procedure,Procedure, Laparoscopic Surgical,Procedures, Laparoscopic Surgical,Surgery, Laparoscopic,Surgical Procedure, Laparoscopic,Celioscopies,Laparoscopic Assisted Surgeries,Laparoscopic Surgeries,Laparoscopies,Peritoneoscopies,Surgeries, Laparoscopic,Surgeries, Laparoscopic Assisted,Surgery, Laparoscopic Assisted
D011125 Adenomatous Polyposis Coli A polyposis syndrome due to an autosomal dominant mutation of the APC genes (GENES, APC) on CHROMOSOME 5. The syndrome is characterized by the development of hundreds of ADENOMATOUS POLYPS in the COLON and RECTUM of affected individuals by early adulthood. Polyposis Coli, Familial,Polyposis Syndrome, Familial,Adenomatous Polyposis Coli, Familial,Adenomatous Polyposis of the Colon,Familial Adenomatous Polyposis,Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Coli,Familial Adenomatous Polyposis of the Colon,Familial Intestinal Polyposis,Familial Multiple Polyposi,Familial Multiple Polyposis,Familial Multiple Polyposis Syndrome,Familial Polyposis Coli,Familial Polyposis Syndrome,Familial Polyposis of the Colon,Hereditary Polyposis Coli,Myh-Associated Polyposis,Polyposis Coli,Polyposis, Adenomatous Intestinal,Adenomatous Intestinal Polyposes,Adenomatous Intestinal Polyposis,Adenomatous Polyposes, Familial,Adenomatous Polyposis Colus,Adenomatous Polyposis, Familial,Coli, Adenomatous Polyposis,Coli, Familial Polyposis,Coli, Hereditary Polyposis,Coli, Polyposis,Colus, Adenomatous Polyposis,Colus, Familial Polyposis,Colus, Hereditary Polyposis,Colus, Polyposis,Familial Adenomatous Polyposes,Familial Intestinal Polyposes,Familial Multiple Polyposes,Familial Multiple Polyposus,Familial Polyposis Colus,Familial Polyposis Syndromes,Hereditary Polyposis Colus,Intestinal Polyposes, Familial,Intestinal Polyposis, Adenomatous,Intestinal Polyposis, Familial,Multiple Polyposes, Familial,Multiple Polyposi, Familial,Multiple Polyposis, Familial,Multiple Polyposus, Familial,Myh Associated Polyposis,Myh-Associated Polyposes,Polyposes, Familial Adenomatous,Polyposes, Familial Multiple,Polyposes, Myh-Associated,Polyposi, Familial Multiple,Polyposis Coli, Adenomatous,Polyposis Coli, Hereditary,Polyposis Colus,Polyposis Colus, Adenomatous,Polyposis Colus, Familial,Polyposis Colus, Hereditary,Polyposis, Familial Adenomatous,Polyposis, Familial Multiple,Polyposis, Myh-Associated,Polyposus, Familial Multiple
D011247 Pregnancy The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH. Gestation,Pregnancies
D011252 Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic The co-occurrence of pregnancy and NEOPLASMS. The neoplastic disease may precede or follow FERTILIZATION. Complications, Neoplastic Pregnancy,Neoplastic Pregnancy Complications,Pregnancy, Neoplastic Complications,Complication, Neoplastic Pregnancy,Neoplastic Pregnancy Complication,Pregnancies, Neoplastic Complications,Pregnancy Complication, Neoplastic
D012004 Rectal Neoplasms Tumors or cancer of the RECTUM. Cancer of Rectum,Rectal Cancer,Rectal Tumors,Cancer of the Rectum,Neoplasms, Rectal,Rectum Cancer,Rectum Neoplasms,Cancer, Rectal,Cancer, Rectum,Neoplasm, Rectal,Neoplasm, Rectum,Rectal Cancers,Rectal Neoplasm,Rectal Tumor,Rectum Cancers,Rectum Neoplasm,Tumor, Rectal
D002296 Carcinosarcoma A malignant neoplasm that contains elements of carcinoma and sarcoma so extensively intermixed as to indicate neoplasia of epithelial and mesenchymal tissue. (Stedman, 25th ed) Carcinosarcomas
D003082 Colectomy Surgical resection of a portion of or the entire colon. Hemicolectomy,Large Bowel Resection,Colectomies,Hemicolectomies,Large Bowel Resections,Resection, Large Bowel,Resections, Large Bowel

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