title: Adrenal tumours in Chinese.
abstract: Patients with adrenal tumours were identified (n = 412). Among them, 43% (176 patients) had primary and 57% (236 patients) had secondary tumours. Of the primary tumours, 71% were adenomas, but adrenal cortical carcinoma 6.8% (12 cases), phaeochromocytoma 9.7% (17 cases), neuroblastoma 6.2% (11 cases), ganglioneuroma 1.1% (2 cases) and myelolipoma 4% (7 cases) were also seen. Rare tumours like lipoma and haemangioma were also found. Most of the metastatic tumours were carcinomas (88.2%), mainly from lung (33.2%), stomach (15.9%) and oesophagus (17.3%).
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital.
authors.forename: K Y
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Lam
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D000293:Adolescent; D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D006723:Hong Kong / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D014565:Urogenital Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary