title: Imaging techniques for adrenal lesion characterization.
abstract: Imaging of the adrenal gland for characterization of adrenal lesions has made tremendous strides and new technologies continue to evolve. This article highlights the anatomic and physiologic imaging principles that underpin current major adrenal imaging modalities and the new techniques becoming available. This article focuses primarily on incidental adrenal lesions, which are encountered more frequently with increasing use of imaging. This article concludes with a brief discussion of the role of adrenal biopsy, performed less frequently because of the success of these noninvasive adrenal imaging advances.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. mblake2@partners.org
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Blake
authors.forename: Nagaraj-Setty
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Holalkere
authors.forename: Giles W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Boland
mesh_terms: D000307:Adrenal Gland Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001706:Biopsy; D003287:Contrast Media; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media