Adrenal incidentalomas
Adrenal Incidentalomas in Cancer Patients Are Not Always “Innocent”: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
... In conclusion, we report an unusual case of a patient with synchronous presentation of nonfunctioning ACC and colon cancer, who developed SVC syndrome due to metastases from ACC. Our case suggests that adrenal ...
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Mifepristone reduces insulin resistance in patient volunteers with adrenal incidentalomas that secrete low levels of cortisol : a pilot study
... with adrenal incidentaloma should undergo any ...secreting incidentalomas who have been subjected to adrenalectomy [26,27] and improvements have been noted in weight, blood pressure, lipid profiles, ...
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Mifepristone Reduces Insulin Resistance in Patient Volunteers with Adrenal Incidentalomas That Secrete Low Levels of Cortisol: A Pilot Study
... We have shown that short-term use of mifepristone can reduce IR in subjects with adrenal incidentalomas and low-grade autonomous cortisol secretion. To our knowledge, use of mifepristone in subjects with ...
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Preoperative workup in the assessment of adrenal incidentalomas: outcome from 282 consecutive laparoscopic adrenalectomies
... treat adrenal incidentalomas be- fore 2002 ...of adrenal lesions [23], on the other hand the improve- ment in imaging quality [11] has allowed the identification Table 3 Postoperative diagnosis for ...
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Three uncommon adrenal incidentalomas: a 13 year surgical pathology review
... non-functioning adrenal cortical adenomas are the most common adrenal incidentalomas ...4,000 adrenal tumors are reported as malignant [1,2] with the majority of these being ...to ...
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Glucocorticoid Receptor and Molecular Chaperones in the Pathogenesis of Adrenal Incidentalomas: Potential Role of Reduced Sensitivity to Glucocorticoids
... normal adrenal cortex of different species (42–48), the absence of GR mRNA and dexamethasone binding sites and reduced GR protein expression in cortisol-secreting adenomas and bilat- eral adrenal ...
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Characteristics of Adrenal Incidentalomas in a Large, Prospective Computed Tomography Based Multicenter Study: The COAR Study in Korea
... uate and manage AI, especially in Asians, prospective studies with larger numbers of patients using improved imaging tech- niques are required. To this end, we prospectively recruited pa- tients with AIs from three ...
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Limited value of long-term biochemical follow-up in patients with adrenal incidentalomas-a retrospective cohort study
... adenoma/hyperplasia (homogeneous, well circumscribed, lipid-rich with 10 or less Hounsfield units (HU) on unenhanced CT, and for MRI a clear signal intensity decrease on opposed-phase images, compared with in- phase ...
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Role of ct in investigation of an incidental adrenal lesion later confirmed to be a phaeochromocytoma
... as adrenal masses detected during USG, CT or MRI examination in patients for whom imaging studies are being performed for an unrelated ...the adrenal glands are a common site for metastatic disease. ...
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Two Adults with Adrenal Myelolipoma and 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency
... Adrenal incidentalomas are common; the challenge is to rule out malignancy or excess hormone secretion ...of adrenal, adipose, and myeloid tissue, representing 1.5%–9% of adrenal ...
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Incidentaloma: from general practice to specific endocrine frame
... 21. Di Dalmazi G, Vicennati V, Rinaldi E, Morselli-Labate AM, Giampalma E, Mosconi C, et al. Progressively increased patterns of subclinical cortisol hypersecretion in adrenal incidentalomas differently ...
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Adrenal incidentaloma: a case of carcinoma
... The widespread use of imaging, particularly computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), during diagnostic testing or treatment for many clinical conditions, has resulted in the identification of ...
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Resistant hypertension with adrenal nodule: are we removing the right gland?
... the adrenal gland may reveal nodules or masses, but the caveat in using radiology alone for detection of APA is that small adenomas may be missed or may be labelled incorrectly and many adrenal adenomas may ...
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Benign adrenal adenomas secreting excess mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids
... Results: A patient presented with hypertension, hypokalemia, and symptoms related to hypercortisolism. The case demonstrated suppressed renin concentrations with an elevated aldosterone:renin ratio, abnormal ...
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Isolated unilateral adrenal gland hemorrhage following motor vehicle collision: a case report and review of the literature
... of adrenal neoplasm presenting as possible ad- renal hemorrhage is described ...underlying adrenal neo- plasm should be considered, due to possible hemorrhage into a pre-existing adrenal ...traumatic ...
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Lack of an adrenal cortex in Sf1 mutant mice is compatible with the generation and differentiation of chromaffin cells
... the adrenal cortex is not an absolute prerequisite for the determination and differentiation of the chromaffin ...the adrenal gland (extra- adrenal chromaffin cells) similarly suggests that ...
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The developmental changes in plasma adrenal androgens during infancy and adrenarche are associated with changing activities of adrenal microsomal 17 hydroxylase and 17,20 desmolase
... dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate decrease during the first year of life, remain low during childhood, and then increase during adrenarche. To determine whether alterations in adrenal enzyme activity might explain ...
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PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA—LOCALIZATION BY AORTOGRAPHY
... arterial opacification; note pattern fronm branches of right adrenal artery, indicating tumor of adrenal. gland[r] ...
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A case of adrenal Cushing’s syndrome with bilateral adrenal masses
... the adrenal gland enter hormone synthetic pathways, demonstrate affinity for specific tissue receptors, and provide endocrine function in the target ...the adrenal cortex, radiopharmaceuticals are ...
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Original Article Ganglioneuroma in unusual sites: clinical, radiologic and pathological features
... Two patients received ultrasonic examination (No. 6 and No. 9), which revealed a homoge- nous, oval, well-defined and low echo mass in contact with the right adrenal gland. The mass was 66×32 mm in size (No. 6), ...
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