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ea0034p139 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2014

Jumping the gun: an audit of adrenal biopsies in a tertiary referral centre

Chortis Vasileios , Scordilis Kassiani , Arlt Wiebke , Crowley Rachel

New adrenal lesions discovered during cross-sectional abdominal imaging pose an increasingly common diagnostic challenge; their initial management should focus on the exclusion of malignancy and autonomous hormone excess. The role of adrenal biopsies in this context is limited and pathologists often struggle to differentiate benign from malignant adrenal tissue even when analysing the entire tumour specimen. Guidelines recommend that adrenal biopsy should only be considered if...