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CASE REPORT article

Front. Med.

Sec. Precision Medicine

Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1709401

Adrenocortical oncocytic neoplasms:a case report

Provisionally accepted
Lintao  CaoLintao Cao1Xiaoxiao  DongXiaoxiao Dong2Jiufeng  TanJiufeng Tan3*Zhenpu  WangZhenpu Wang1*
  • 1People's Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China
  • 2Zhengzhou First People Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
  • 3China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China

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Adrenocortical oncocytic neoplasms(ACONs) are very rare in adrenal cortical tumors.One case was reported in this paper.During the physical examination, a soft tissue density shadow was about 6 cm x 5.7 cm in the right adrenal gland,A preoperative diagnosis was adrenal pheochromocytoma with concurrent laparoscopic resection of the right adrenal tumor.Postoperative pathological results rewarded the adrenal cortical oncocytic neoplasms ACONs.After 11-months of postoperative follow-up, the patient had no signs of tumor recurrence and related complications.

Keywords: adrenal cortical tumour, adrenocortical oncocytic neoplasms (ACONs), diagnosis, differential diagnosis, Pathology

Received: 20 Sep 2025; Accepted: 20 Oct 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Cao, Dong, Tan and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence:
Jiufeng Tan, tanjf@jlu.edu.cn
Zhenpu Wang, wangzhenpu82@163.com

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