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УЖМБС 2020, 5(6): 84–87
https://doi.org/10.26693/jmbs05.06.084
Experimental Medicine and Morphology

Clinical and Morphological Analysis of Adrenal Glands Pathology in Kharkiv Region (according to Archival Material for the Period 2015-2019)

Sorokina I. V., Markovskyi V. D., Goidenko N. I., Kaluzhyna O. V.
Abstract

The adrenal glands play an important role in the functioning of the human body. There are more opportunities for early tumors detection of these endocrine glands thanks to modern diagnostic procedures, but the problem is very relevant. Morphological investigation is the basis for differentiating adrenocortical adenoma from carcinoma. Material and methods. The article presents the clinical and morphological features of the adrenal glands pathology in Kharkiv region in the period 2015-2019 by analyzing the archival histological material of 77 patients who were operated in hospitals of the State Institution "Institute of General and Emergency Surgery named after V. T. Zaitsev of National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine" and "V. Danilevsky Institute for Endocrine Pathology Problems of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine". Results and discussion. The study established that in 2015 there were 18 cases (including 8 malignant tumors), in 2016 – 16 cases (2 cases with bilateral damage, 1 malignant tumor), in 2017 – 12 cases, in 2018 – 20 cases, in 2019 – 11 cases. All tumors were benign in the last 3 years of the study. We calculated that 48.6 years was the average age of patients with this localization tumor processes (20-75 years). Women suffered more often than men (61.03% and 38.97%, respectively). Both adrenal glands had pathological changes in 2 people. The left gland is most often affected. The vast majority of the formations in 2015-2019 were benign (88.61%). Adrenocortical adenomas (45 cases, mostly clear cell variant, leftward, in women) and mature pheochromocytomas (13 cases, uncomplexed variant, leftward, in men), adrenal cysts (6 cases, more often on the right, in men, with a dense fibrous capsule), hyperplasia of the cortical, cerebral or both layers (4 cases), ganglioneuroma of the adrenal medulla (1 case) and a combination of pheochromocytoma with two adrenocorticosteromas (1 case) were among them. Conclusion. Malignant tumors were represented by malignant corticosteromas (5 cases out of 9, leftward, various sizes, with secondary changes in tumor tissue), malignant pheochromocytomas (3 cases out of 9, right, different size) and malignant paraganglioma (1 case). The larger size of the tumor did not always correlate with the nature of the process

Keywords: adrenal glands, pheochromocytoma, adrenocortical cancer, corticosteroma

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