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A Novel Method: Super-selective Adrenal Venous Sampling
Published on: September 15, 2017
Adrenal imaging for adenoma characterization: imaging features, diagnostic accuracies and differential diagnoses
Jung Jae Park1, Byung Kwan Park1, Chan Kyo Kim1
1Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Adrenocortical adenoma is the most common adrenal tumour. This lesion is frequently encountered on cross-sectional imaging that has been performed for unrelated reasons. Adrenal adenoma manifests various imaging features on CT, MRI and positron emission tomography/CT. The learning objectives of this review are to describe the imaging findings of adrenocortical adenoma, to compare the sensitivities of different imaging modalities for adenoma characterization and to introduce differential diagnoses.
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