FALSE LOCALIZATION OF AN ALDOSTERONOMA BY DEXAMETHASONE‐SUPPRESSED ADRENAL SCINTIGRAPHY
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical Endocrinology
- Vol. 26 (6) , 699-705
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2265.1987.tb00828.x
Abstract
A patient with primary aldosteronism had bilateral adrenal tumours on computed tomography. Selenocholesterol scintigraphy showed uptake by the larger right adrenal gland and a tumour in the gland was also visualized by venography. In contrast, measurements of aldosterone concentrations in adrenal venous blood lateralized to the left side. At surgery the left adrenal gland contained an aldosteronoma and the right adrenal gland a large nonfunctioning adenoma. Thus, selenocholesterol scintigraphy incorrectly localized the functioning adrenal tumour.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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