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25th European Congress of Endocrinology

Istanbul, Turkey
13 May 2023 - 16 May 2023

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Menopause and adrenal incidentalomas – a distinct endocrine association

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Menopause and adrenal incidentalomas - a distinct endocrine association

Ognjanovic Sanja

Adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are tumours accidentally detected by various imaging methods applied without suspecting adrenal pathology, indicating that most of them are nonfunctional. The most frequent hormonal alteration in AIs is autonomous cortisol secretion (ACS), a condition of altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity, established on the biochemical parameters of hypercortisolism, without phenotype expression of Cushing’s syndrome. Since mild hypercortiso...