Adrenal tumours have become a common incidental finding in the radiological evaluation of patients. Estimates suggest that ...

A recent case-control study reveals that increased BMI and tobacco use are independently associated with increased odds of a ...

About 1.4% of the general adult population has an adrenal tumor, of which about two thirds are nonfunctioning adenomas regardless of age, a new study suggests. But because a third of the patients ...

Primary hyperaldosteronism (PHA) is a rare cause of low-renin hypertension in childhood. Only rarely in children does PHA result from an adrenal adenoma (ATA), in which cases the hypertension is cured ...

Current screening guidelines may not capture all cases of hyperaldosteronism among patients with ESKD. Hyperaldosteronism occurs in a higher proportion of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) ...

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Instead, the vast majority of these lipid-poor adenomas can be characterized employing a CT washout study. This imaging methodology quantitates loss of contrast enhancement by a lesion and thus ...

Researchers from Kyushu University's Faculty of Medical Sciences report on new insights into the mechanisms of how adrenal gland tumors are formed. The team identified a new type of tumor cell ...

A cross-sectional study of more than 25,000 adults has found that with increased screening, the prevalence of adrenal tumors in an unselected community population was 1.4%. The prevalence increased ...

In a retrospective cohort of patients with adrenal incidentalomas, plasma cortisol level after a 1-mg dexamethasone suppression test (DST) had a linear relationship with mortality risk, reported ...

Researchers have developed a noninvasive method to identify a potential cause of hypertension with a drastic reduction in radiation exposure, a new study shows. The fluorine-based reagent detects ...