Renal cell carcinoma mimicking adrenal tumor

There are a variety of causes of adrenal pseudotumors on computerized tomography (ct) scan,including upper-pole renal mass,gastric diverticulum,prominent splenic lobulation,pancreatic mass,hepatic mass,and periadrenal varices. we present a case of a large subhepatic mass that discrimination of its origin from neighborhood organs was difficult preoperatively. our patient was a 58 years old man,that three months after an unsuccessful operation in another center for a pseudoadrenal mass underwent a very difficult subcapsular tumorectomy in our center. © 2010 mohammad kazem moslemi et al.