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Incidentally discovered adrenal masses

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Endocrine Neoplasms

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Currently, adrenal masses are discovered incidentally in 0.35–5% of patients imaged with computed tomography (CT) and are referred to as adrenal incidentalomas [1,2]. As a result, the diagnostic dilemma of separating the small fraction of hypersecretory and/or malignant masses from the majority that are nonhypersecretory adrenal adenomas has become common. Given the fourfold greater autopsy incidence of adrenal adenomas compared with the radiographic incidence, and the oncology data that only 20–41% of adrenal metastases are detected by CT [1,3], it is likely that an increase in prevalence will occur if the spatial resolving capacity of abdominal imaging improves, if abdominal imaging occurs more frequently, and if routine abdominal imaging slice thickness is decreased.

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Kloos, R.T., Korobkin, M., Thompson, N.W., Francis, I.R., Shapiro, B., Gross, M.D. (1997). Incidentally discovered adrenal masses. In: Arnold, A. (eds) Endocrine Neoplasms. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 89. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6355-6_13

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