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Título: Hepatocellular adenomas associated with anabolic androgenic steroid abuse in bodybuilders: a report of two cases and a review of the literature
Autores/as: Socas Hernández, Lourdes
Zumbado Peña, Manuel Luis 
Pérez-Luzardo, O. 
Ramos Gordillo, Antonio Sebastián 
Pérez, C.
Hernández Hernández, Juan Ramón 
Domínguez Boada, Luis María 
Clasificación UNESCO: 32 Ciencias médicas
3205 Medicina interna
Palabras clave: Multiple Hepatic Adenomas
Liver
Carcinoma
Rupture
Fecha de publicación: 2005
Publicación seriada: British Journal of Sports Medicine 
Resumen: Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are used illicitly at high doses by bodybuilders. The misuse of these drugs is associated with serious adverse effects to the liver, including cellular adenomas and adenocarcinomas. We report two very different cases of adult male bodybuilders who developed hepatocellular adenomas following AAS abuse. The first patient was asymptomatic but had two large liver lesions which were detected by ultrasound studies after routine medical examination. The second patient was admitted to our hospital with acute renal failure and ultrasound ( US) studies showed mild hepatomegaly with several very close hyperecogenic nodules in liver, concordant with adenomas at first diagnosis. In both cases the patients have evolved favourably and the tumours have shown a tendency to regress after the withdrawal of AAS. The cases presented here are rare but may well be suggestive of the natural course of AAS induced hepatocellular adenomas. In conclusion, sportsmen taking AAS should be considered as a group at risk of developing hepatic sex hormone related tumours. Consequently, they should be carefully and periodically monitored with US studies. In any case, despite the size of the tumours detected in these two cases, the possibility of spontaneous tumour regression must also be taken in account.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/48420
ISSN: 0306-3674
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2004.013599
Fuente: British journal of sports medicine [ISSN 0306-3674], v. 39
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