Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Adrenal incidentalomas are becoming increasingly common due to the improvements in imaging techniques, increasing numbers of radiological investigations and an aging population. The current follow-up protocols are designed to avoid missing clinically relevant lesions (e.g. malignancy or hormone hypersecretion) by recommending repeated radiological and biochemical investigations. Large amounts of money are spent on patients who as it seems mostly have benign and non...