Difference between revisions of "Adrenal gland"

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*Clinical: increased urine homovanillic acid.
*Clinical: increased urine homovanillic acid.


====Epidemiology====
Epidemiology:
*Usually paediatric population.
*Usually paediatric population.


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*Homer-Wright rosettes.
*Homer-Wright rosettes.
**Rosette with a small (~100 micrometers - diameter) meshwork of fibers (neuropil) at the centre.<ref name=pmid16551982>{{cite journal |author=Wippold FJ, Perry A |title=Neuropathology for the neuroradiologist: rosettes and pseudorosettes |journal=AJNR Am J Neuroradiol |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=488–92 |year=2006 |month=March |pmid=16551982 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
**Rosette with a small (~100 micrometers - diameter) meshwork of fibers (neuropil) at the centre.<ref name=pmid16551982>{{cite journal |author=Wippold FJ, Perry A |title=Neuropathology for the neuroradiologist: rosettes and pseudorosettes |journal=AJNR Am J Neuroradiol |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=488–92 |year=2006 |month=March |pmid=16551982 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
Notes:
*The fibrous septa are esp. useful for differentiation from lymphoma.
DDx:
*[[Small round cell tumours]].


====Subtypes====
====Subtypes====
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