Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: An adrenal incidentaloma is an adrenal mass lesion greater than 1 cm in diameter, which is incidentally discovered by radiological investigation. The prevalence of adrenal incidentalomas increases with age, increasing to around 3% at aged 50years and 10% in the elderly. The majority of these lesions are benign >80%. Adrenal incidentalomas fall into one of three categories: Non-functioning tumours: these lesions are benign e.g. adenomas, adrenal cysts, haemato...