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adrenal tumor
(redirected from Adrenocortical adenoma)

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adrenal tumor
1 Adrenocortical adenoma, see there 2 Adrenocortical adenocarcinoma, see there
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It has also been proposed that adrenal hyperplasia predisposes patients to develop adrenal carcinoma, as a few cases of congenital adrenal hyperplasia are associated with functional adrenocortical adenomas but not carcinomas (6).
Adrenal carcinoma: a case study by Hemmady, Sujata / New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science
Examples of this include tumors which produce a "mass effect" (compression of vital organs such as blood vessels), or "functional" tumors of endocrine tissues, which may overproduce certain hormones (examples include thyroid adenomas, adrenocortical adenomas, and pituitary adenomas).
Information on Benign Tumors by Richard James / Health, general community
Yamamoto et al (6) reported that a diabetic patient had primary aldosteronism due to bilateral functioning adrenocortical adenomas.
Primary aldosteronism in type 1 diabetes mellitus by Luong, Khanh Vinh Quoc / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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