Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
adrenocortical carcinoma
Synonyms:
The correct designation for a primary epithelial malignancy of the adrenal cortex is not completely straightforward; one major pathology text, when discussing this lesion, refers to it by three different names (underlined, below); for obvious reasons, adrenocortical carcinoma is the most appropriate term; synonyms include adrenal cancer, adrenal carcinoma, adrenal cortical carcinoma, adrenal hypernephroma malignum, cortical carcinoma, carcinoma substantiae corticalis suprarenalis, corticosuprarenaloma, corticosuprarenoma, periepithelioma suprarenalis, suprarenal carcinoma, suprarenal epithelioma, suprarenoma
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