[Incidence of adrenalitis in necropsy material]

In the necropsy material of the Medical School of the University of São Paulo, collected between 1931 and 1981, consisting of 131,466 post-mortem examinations, there were 254 (0.2%) cases of adrenalitis, 185 male and 69 female. In 161 of these cases the affection was bilateral, in 46 it was unilateral and in 47 cases this information is lacking. In 111 cases (43.7%), the adrenalitis was caused by tuberculosis, in 86 cases (33.8%), by South American blastomycosis, in three cases (1.2%) by histoplasmosis, in two (0.8%) by Salmonellosis, in two (0.8%) by cytomegalovirus infection and in one (0.4%) by leishmaniasis. The high number of cases with tuberculosis and paracoccidioidomycosis of adrenal glands is due to high incidence of these infections in Brazil.