The incidental nonhyperfunctioning adrenal mass: an imaging algorithm for characterization
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In Vivo, Percutaneous, Needle Based, Optical Coherence Tomography of Renal Masses
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S M Pender1, G W Boland, M J Lee
1Department of Radiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Clinical Radiology
|December 2, 1998
Abstract:
Nonhyperfunctioning adrenal lesions such as cysts, myelolipomas, adrenal haemorrhage, adenoma and metastases are described. Definitive imaging features that help characterize adrenal cysts, myelolipomas and adrenal haemorrhage are illustrated and the differentiation of benign from malignant adrenal lesions using an algorithmic approach based on lipid sensitive imaging is provided.
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