ADRENOCORTICAL NEOPLASM DISGUISED AS A POSTTRAUMATIC PERINEPHRIC HEMATOMA

Trauma and cancer are entities that are encountered frequently by surg eons and occasionally may exist simultaneously in certain patients, il lustrated here is the case of a man with a perinephric mass, discovere d during evaluation for blunt abdominal trauma, which was originally t hought to be a perinephric hematoma and later proved to be an adrenoco rtical carcinoma.