Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal incidentalomas are common and guidelines recommend testing to exclude functioning lesions and malignancy. Their increasing prevalence results in a number of investigations usually conducted in the Endocrinology clinic.In 2011 we audited the prevalence and management of adrenal incidentalomas identified on abdominal CT imaging over one calendar month in our centre. Consequently, a decision pathway for new adrenal lesions was introduced in the Radi...

Adrenal masses discovered incidentally during imaging (adrenal incidentalomas) are common and constitute a common reason for referral in the Endocrinology clinic. Our aim was to audit the prevalence of adrenal masses discovered in all computerised tomography (CT) abdominal imaging done over one calendar month in our centre. A secondary aim was to identify the underlying diagnosis and fate of the discovered adrenal nodules. All 690 CT scans done in March 2011 in our centre that...