Abstract:The term incidentaloma refers to an asymptomatic mass detected accidentally during a technical examination, mostly by radiological methods, when performed in a patient examined for other conditions or situations. Surgery is the adequate therapy for adrenal incidentalomas with increasing size, a size bigger than 4 cm at detection, hormone-activity or malignant histology. Incidentalomas of the adrenal and thyroid gland are still often dismissed because they are common and mostly benign. Incidentalomas of the pan… Show more
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