Adrenal incidentaloma: a diagnostic challenge

Panagiotis Anagnostis, Asterios Karagiannis, Konstantinos Tziomalos, Anna I. Kakafika, Vasilios G. Athyros, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis

Download PDF

The widespread application of abdominal imaging procedures has resulted in an increased frequency of clinically silent adrenal masses. Adrenal incidentaloma (AI) is a term applied to an accidentally discovered adrenal mass on imaging performed for the investigation of an unrelated complaint …

Clinical utility of FDG-PET for diagnosis of adrenal mass: a large single-center experience

Allison Pitts, Grace Ih, Meng Wei, Deepti Dhall, Nicholas N. Nissen, Alan Waxman, Run Yu

Download PDF

OBJECTIVE: To examine the clinical utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) for diagnosing whether an adrenal mass is malignant, in contemporary clinical practice. DESIGN: Retrospective medical record review of patients from 2 databases at a large hospital …