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[Incidental finding: left sided solid adrenal mass]
A Häner1, M Kurrer, P Hilfiker
1Medizinische Poliklinik, Universitätsspital Zürich.
Praxis
|February 20, 2002
Abstract:
In a 49 year old male patient diagnostic evaluation of pneumonia performed by computed tomography revealed a left sided adrenal mass. The results of laboratory examination and MR-imaging of the adrenal glands suggested a hormonal inactive adrenal adenoma. Two years later, due to an increase in size, a surgical procedure was performed which revealed a gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the posterior gastric wall, rather than the suspected adrenal mass. Radiologic evaluation of adrenal masses and the clinical and pathologic characteristics of stromal tumors are discussed.