Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) has been studied rarely in patients with Cushing’s syndrome. We investigated the possible association between Cushıng’s syndrome and OSAS in this study.Method: Thirty female patients with newly diagnosed Cushing’s syndrome and 30 female obese control subjects were included in this study. All the participants were evaluated by polysomnography. OSAS was defined as apneahypopnea index (AHI) of...

Background: Adrenal incidentalomas are defined as clinically silent adrenal masses >1 cm in size and are detected in up to 10% of patients during imaging procedures performed for unrelated conditions. 17% and 23% of incidentally detected adrenal lesions were reported to be bilateral. The bilateral adrenal tumors include metastasis, lymphoma, neuroblastoma, pheochromocytoma, adenoma and myelolipoma. Non-neoplastic bilateral adrenal masses include infectious processes and he...