Bilateral Adrenal Incidentalomas May Have Different Etiology Than Unilateral
UCSF Endocrine Surgery - - October 01, 2015
MedicalResearch.com recently interviewed Quan-Yang Duh M.D. (pictured first), Chief of the Section of Endocrine Surgery, Division of General Surgery, at UCSF, on the differences in etiology of unilateral vs. bilateral incidentalomas.
What we found in our study was that although the possible subclinical diseases were the same – hypercortisolism and pheochromocytoma, the probabilities were different. The patients with bilateral incidentalomas were more likely to have subclinical Cushing's and less likely to have pheochromocytomas than those with unilateral incidentalomas.
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