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BENITEZ, G et al. Mielolipoma de glándula suprarenal: Reporte de un caso. RFM [online]. 2005, vol.28, n.1, pp.23-26. ISSN 0798-0469.

Objective: Describe clinical aspects, imagenology and treatment of this unusual pathology. Ambient: Servicio de Cirugía III. Hospital Universitario de Caracas. Methods: A clinical case report and literature review. Results: Myelolipoma was defined by Oberling in 1929 to nominate a benign variety of tumors made for mature fat and hematopoyetic tissue from adrenal stroma(1). Autopsy incidence are between 0,3 and 0,4%(2), increase in patients with obesity(2,3) and more frequently between 4^th and 6^th decades of life(4). Diagnostic test include magnetic resonance that show fatty areas with T1 amplify intensity and T2 moderate hyperdensity(5). Recommended treatment when tumors are bigger than 5 cm. is surgical(6).

Palavras-chave : Adrenal myelolipoma; Benign adrenal tumor.