ALLMedicine™ Adrenal Incidentaloma Center

Mar 23rd, 2023 - Imaging plays an important role in the characterization of adrenal tumors, but findings might be inconclusive. The clinical question is whether [18F] FDG PET/CT is of diagnostic value in this setting. This meta-analysis was aimed at the diagnostic...

Mar 21st, 2023 - Adrenal incidentaloma and evaluation of mass size alone as an indication for adrenalectomy: experience in a UK tertiary-care hospital.|2023|Gabriel MM,Prankerd Smith O,Saada J,Burgess NA,|

Feb 24th, 2023 - With the development of imaging detection technology and its wide application in clinic, the detection rate of adrenal incidentaloma (AI) has been greatly improved. In our previous study, 18.9% of AI were accompanied by autonomic cortisol secretio...

Feb 2nd, 2023 - Adrenal incidentalomas are regularly encountered during imaging for esophageal cancer patients, but their oncological significance remains unknown. This study aimed to describe the incidence and etiology of adrenal incidentalomas observed througho...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Adrenal hyperfunction is associated with an increased risk of cardio-metabolic complications in subjects with adrenal incidentaloma (AI). Reliable prevalence estimates of functioning AIs are important to direct resources allocations. To assess the...

Jul 9th, 2016 - : By definition, an adrenal incidentaloma is an asymptomatic adrenal mass detected on imaging not performed for suspected adrenal disease. In most cases, adrenal incidentalomas are nonfunctioning adrenocortical adenomas, but may also represent con...

Feb 24th, 2023 - With the development of imaging detection technology and its wide application in clinic, the detection rate of adrenal incidentaloma (AI) has been greatly improved. In our previous study, 18.9% of AI were accompanied by autonomic cortisol secretio...

Aug 10th, 2022 - With the development of imaging detection technology and its wide application in clinic, the detection rate of adrenal incidentaloma (AI) has been greatly improved. Most AI are benign and do not have the function of autonomic hormone secretion, bu...

May 2nd, 2022 - Glucocorticoids, mainly cortisol, play a crucial role in the allostatic process of adjustment to stressors and can determine important changes in central nervous system structures. It is well known that Cushing's syndrome (CS) is associated with n...

Apr 15th, 2022 - In the past few years, with the widespread use of chest and abdominal imaging, the prevalence of adrenal incidentaloma (AIs) has been increasing and now approaches the 8.7% incidence reported in autopsy series. subclinical hypercortisolism (SH) is...

Mar 18th, 2020 - The investigators will recruit 150 patients annually for 10 years (adrenal incidentaloma 100 patients, pheochromocytoma 15 patients, primary aldosteronism 25 patients, adrenal cushing syndrome 10 patients, adrenocortical carcinoma 2 patients) and ...

Sep 12th, 2022 - About 1.4% of the general adult population has an adrenal tumor, of which about two thirds are nonfunctioning adenomas regardless of age, a new study suggests. But because a third of the patients discovered to have such tumors were found to have a...

Aug 23rd, 2022 - New adrenalectomy guidelines from the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons are aimed at assisting both specialist and general surgeons with perioperative adrenal care, including guidance on management of adrenal incidentalomas. Published onl...

Dec 15th, 2021 - Pheochromocytoma is a rare catecholamine-secreting tumor of chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla or sympathetic ganglia, occurring in about 0. 2 to 0.

May 24th, 2021 - Mortality is two to three times higher in patients with adrenal incidentalomas who have autonomous cortisol secretion levels of 83 nmol/L (3 µg/dL) or more after a 1 mg dexamethasone suppression test (DST) compared with those with levels below thi...

Nov 1st, 2012 - Maggie, 42, presents to the emergency department with chronic intermittent abdominal pain and bloating with constipation and occasional diarrhea. She denies fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, melana, bright red blood per rectum, or changes in stool.