Tumours Flashcards
Adrenocortical tumours usually affect who?
Adults
Adrenocortical tumours which occur in children are usually in association with what?
Li-Fraumeni Syndrome which mutates p53
What is the only definite criteria for malignancy in adrenal tumours?
Metastases
Are adrenal adenomas differentiated or not?
They are differentiated
Which is more likely to be functional, an adrenal adenoma or carcinoma?
Carcinoma
Virilising tumours are more likely to be?
Malignant
Local invasion of an adrenal carcinoma will usually affect where?
Kidneys and retroperitoneum
Adrenal carcinomas spread through the blood. Where will this affect?
Lungs, liver, bone
What is the prognosis of adrenal carcinoma like?
Poor
Who does neuroblastoma occur in?
Children, usually diagnosed at around 18 months though can be earlier
What predicts a poorer outcome in neuroblastoma?
Amplification of n-myc and expression of telomerase
What is a phaeochromocytoma?
A neuroendocrine tumour derived from chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla
What are phaeochromocytomas which occur outwith the adrenal medulla (elsewhere in the sympathetic chain) known as?
Paraganglioma
What are the 10% rules with phaeochromocytoma?
10% extra-adrenal, 10% bilateral, 10% malignant, 10% not associated with hypertension
When are up to 50% of cases of phaechromocytoma bilateral?
When they are familial
Malignant phaeochromocytomas are most common when?
They are extra-adrenal
Chromaffin cells reduce chrome salts (oxidation of catecholamines) which causes what?
A brown colour reaction