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Estrogen-secreting adrenal tumor responsive to ACTH: localization by adrenal venous sampling
J H Mersey1, L Ceballos, P Levin
1Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21218.
Southern Medical Journal
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
In a 48-year-old man with gynecomastia but no other signs of feminization, routine evaluation revealed only minimally elevated serum estrogens. The diagnosis of an estrogen-secreting adrenal tumor was suggested by CT and confirmed by adrenal venous sampling. This tumor was found to be ACTH-responsive. Results in this patient are compared with those in normal volunteers, in whom adrenal venous sampling failed to localize estrogen secretion and in whom ACTH did not increase estrogens.