What GPs should know about treating adrenal incidentalomas
7th April 2016
INTRODUCTION
ADRENAL incidentaloma (AI) refers to an adrenal lesion greater than 1cm in diameter, discovered inadvertently, in up to 4.2% of patients undergoing radiological imaging.1-6
As many as one in five incidentalomas are functional,2 including: hypersecretion of cortisol causing Cushing’s or Subclinical Cushing’s Syndrome (SCS), catecholamines leading to pheochromocytoma, aldosterone resulting in primary aldosteronism (Conn’s syndrome), and rarely, androgens leading to
