A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2017; you can also visit the original URL.
The file type is application/pdf
.
Adrenal incidentalomas: a simple guide to a disease of modern technology
2010
The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
A 33-year-old woman was found to have an incidental adrenal mass during ultrasound imaging for recurrent urinary tract infections. This was subsequently confirmed by computed tomography (CT), which showed a wellcircumscribed 3 x 3.7 cm lesion with a density of 40 Hounsfield units (HU) (Figure 1 ). She was clinically Cushingoid with a history of hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance, hirsutism and amenorrhoea. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) independent Cushing's syndrome was confirmed
doi:10.4997/jrcpe.2010.407
pmid:21132138
fatcat:aqn5z5edmjbefn4dasxnuhclhe