BACKGROUND Adenomas of the adrenal gland are rare causes of virilization in childhood. CASE REPORT A girl aged 2 years and 4 months presented with pubarche, distinct clitoral hypertrophy, tall stature, and increased height velocity. Plasma testosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone were elevated. Androgens remained unchanged after adrenocorticotropic hormone, and dexamethasone administrations. U...

BACKGROUND Chemical-shift magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been known to successfully differentiate adenomas from metastases. However, there has been concern that metastasis from extra-adrenal primary malignancies which contain high lipid content such as clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) could mimic adrenal adenomas. PURPOSE To evaluate the ability of MR to differentiate adrenal adeno...

BACKGROUND CD44 is a cell surface glycoprotein found on many normal cells, mainly lymphoid and epithelial. Normal cells usually express standard CD44 (CD44-S), whereas malignant tumours may express CD44 variant isoforms (CD44-V). CD44 expression has been described for neural crest derivatives. Characterisation of differences in CD44 expression may help in the diagnosis and differentiation of di...

The objective of this study was to report an unusual case of unilateral adrenal hematoma in; a 19-year-old young man who did not have a history of any specific systemic disease. The patient was admitted to hospital with chest pain that lasted for one day. Preoperative contrast-enhanced computerized tomography evaluated an adrenal mass (sized, 10.5 x 12.7 cm) adjacent to the anterior of the left...

We report three cases of Cushing's syndrome (CS) with bilateral adrenal tumors. When bilateral adrenal tumors are encountered, a differential diagnosis is difficult to make, especially in the case of functioning bilateral adrenocortical adenoma. Adrenal scintigraphy has become a standard technique to determine the laterality of excessive hormone secretion; however, this examination results in b...

Two cases are reported as follows: 1) 1 female patient with accelerated-malignant hypertension secondary to an aldosterone-producing adrenal adenoma; and 2) 1 female patient with adrenal adenoma, severe hypertension, and hypertensive encephalopathy. This association is a rare clinical finding, and malignant hypertension may modify the hormonal characteristic of primary aldosteronism, making its...

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) with 17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency is usually characterized by hypertension and primary amenorrhea, sexual infantilism in women, and pseudohermaphroditism in men. hypertension, and sexual infantilism in women and pseudohermaphroditism in men. In rare cases, a huge adrenal gland tumor can present as a clinical manifestation in untreated CAH. Adrenal ...

To evaluate their potential usefulness in the differential diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome, we estimated the urinary excretion rates of the following non-metabolized, unbound steroid hormones: pregnenolone, progesterone, 17-OH-pregnenolone, 17-OH-progesterone, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), androstenedione, testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, 11-deoxycorticosterone, 11-deoxycortisol, corticoster...