続発性副腎腫瘍の病理学的研究

Abstract

Fifty-five cases (4.3%) of secondary tumor of th e adrenal were encountered among 1, 298 tumors in 5, 987 consecutive autopsies. Many writers have remarked the unusual proclivity of pulmonary carcinoma to produce adrenal metastasis, and these occur in 23.1 per cent of our cases of this disease. Metastatic tumors in the a d renal were the result of neoplastic emboli distributed in the arterial blood stream. Arrest of small emboli probably occurs most frequently in the cortical capillaries and ramified arteries in the capsule. The metastatic deposit permeated vertically through the cortex and occasionally they extended in to the central vein.