[Value of sonography, computed tomography and angiography in adrenal diagnosis].
Between 1979 and 1982, 47 patients with pathological process of the adrenals were surgically treated after preceding thorough non-evasive angiographic diagnosis (6 phaeochromocytomas, 20 adrenal adenomas, 8 adrenal hyperplasias, 5 adrenal carcinomas, 5 adrenal cysts and 3 adrenal metastases). The most consistently accurate results were obtained via adrenal phlebography with an accuracy of 94%. This was followed by non-evasive computed tomography (87%). Compared with the data given in literature, hormone determination in the adrenal venous blood was less favourable (79%). Selective adrenal arteriography, which was used less often, yielded correct results in 83% of the cases, whereas the number of accurate diagnoses achieved via sonography was lowest with 54%.
D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D000306:Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006929:Hyperaldosteronism / Q000175:diagnosis; D006965:Hyperplasia; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
Wertigkeit von Sonographie, Computertomographie und Angiographie in der Nebennierendiagnostik.