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Bleeding from the adrenal glands during the perinatal period - a case report

The incidence of adrenal hemorrhage in perinatal period is 0.2-0.5 %. Prenatal diagnosis is rare. In most cases, the hemorrhage determine during wide diagnostic procedure in life threatened or serious sick newborn. We presented a case of female at term born neonate, which was suspiction on cystic intraabdominal mass alredy during 32. week of gestation. After delivery, abdominal sonography was done and found the inhomogen formation above the upper pole of the right kidney. On the magnetic resonance imaging (MR), this formation described as an expansive lesion in the lodge of the right adrenal gland, measuring 3.8 x 2.8 x 3.5 cm, which corresponds to bleeding from the adrenal gland. Wide differential-diagnostic evaluation excluded other diseases, especially malignant. A child from birth during the perinatal periode were no clinical manifestation. Regular ultrasound monitoring shown the resolution of the described formation, until its complete disappearance at the age of two months.

adrenal gland; bleeding; perinatal period

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