An adult adrenal neuroblastoma presented as a right shoulder pain: A case report

Abstract

Neuroblastoma of the adrenal gland is an extremely rare tumor in adulthood although it is one of the most common malignancies in childhood. In this report, a 25-year-old woman who had a left adrenal mass on preoperative imaging. She was operated and the mass was resected in en-block manner along with the left kidney. The histopathological examination of the specimen revealed the diagnosis of neuroblastoma. She had metastasis to the cervical part of the spinal cord operated upon before the time of diagnosis as a suprarenal tumor and received chemotherapy after the operation. Although neuroblastoma of adrenal gland is rare in adulthood, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis for patients with adrenal masses