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Benign adrenal gland tumors may be functional or nonfunctional. Functional tumors make excess hormones, which can affect other systems in the body and cause symptoms.
About 1.4% of the general adult population has an adrenal tumor, of which about two thirds are nonfunctioning adenomas regardless of age, a new study suggests.
They included 879 adult patients (median age, 66.7 years; 59.6% women) with adrenal incidentalomas from two endocrine referral centres in Sweden between 2005 and 2015; patients were followed up ...
Of 212 adults with adrenocortical adenoma who completed functional assessment, 69.3% had nonfunctioning adenomas and 30.7% had tumors with steroid hormone secretion.
Those with a cortisol DST of 3 µg/dL to 5 µg/dL had a more than two-fold higher risk for mortality versus those with a level under 1.8 µg/dL (HR 2.30, 95% CI 1.52-3.49). However, those with ...
UAB Department of Surgery Chair Dr. Herbert Chen and nurse practitioner Kelly Lovell speak to a thyroid patient at The Kirklin Clinic. Chen and Lovell will soon both treat patients as part of the new ...
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