Endocrine Abstracts

Research Objectives: To investigate adrenal tumors of patients operated on at the Osijek Clinical Hospital from 2016 to 2019 to examine the location and histopathological findings of the tumors, and to determine whether there is a difference in the age and gender of the subjects.

Study design: Cross-sectional study with historical data.

Patients and Methods: The subjects were patients of both sexes diagnosed with adrenal tumors who underwent surgery at KBC Osijek in the period 2016–2019. The archive was used in the Clinical Hospital Center Osijek. The results were processed by the statistical program STATISTICA 12.5.192.7.

Results: Adrenal tumors were more often unilateral than bilateral (18 cases, 78%). No differences were found in the localization of tumors of the right and left adrenal glands (9 cases were on the right side, 50%; 9 cases were on the left side, 50%). Benign tumors were more common than malignant and were the most common adenoma (22 cases, 96%). Operated women were on average 10 years older (61.6 years). There were no significant differences with respect to patient age. Benign tumors were more common in women, but the difference was not statistically significant. In the histopathological findings, women were more likely to have adenoma and hyperplasia, while men had more frequently benign tumors and metastatic tumors, but the difference was not statistically significant.

Conclusion: In patients operated on for adrenal tumors, there were more unilateral tumors compared to bilateral ones, but there was no difference in tumor localization (left and right). More common were benign tumors, the most common of which were adenomas. There were no significant differences with respect to age and gender.

Keywords: histology, adrenal glands, adrenal gland neoplasms, adrenocortical adenoma, myelolipoma