Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal incidentalomas (prevalence between 0.4 and 7%) have become a very common clinical problem, the major concern being the risk of malignancy and hormone overproduction.A 57-year-old woman was admitted for asthenia and uncontrolled hypertension. The only relevant clinical signs were abdominal obesity (BMI=31.1 kg/m2) and hypertension. Abdominal ultrasonography showed a voluminous left adrenal solid mass of 10/9 cm, with well-defined sharp ...