[Adrenal incidentaloma in a patient operated upon for colon carcinoma].
The extensive use of visualization techniques has allowed the finding of adrenal masses without clinical symptoms in a growing number of patients affected by diseases of different nature. The challenge of these masses, so called incidentalomas, is particularly diagnostic but also prognostic and therapeutic. A flow-chart of proper investigations utilized in a tumoral patient harbouring a left adrenal mass, permitted the correct diagnosis and prognosis.
Pandolfi
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I Divisione Medica, Ospedale Maggiore, Lodi, Milano.
Pellegrini
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Filippi
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Sbalzarini
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Osella
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D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000378:metabolism; D000306:Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary; D010690:Phlebography; D015995:Prevalence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Incidentaloma surrenalico in paziente operato per carcinoma del colon.