A malignant aldosteronoma

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 373-377

  Sweeney, Ann T ^a   Blake, Michael A ^a   Aish, Leo S ^a   Pais, Vernon M ^a   Dowling, John J ^a   Melby, James C ^a   Tully III, George L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; CATECHOLAMINE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE PLUS TRIAMTERENE; HYDROCORTISONE; IODINE 131; RENIN; VALSARTAN;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM;

EID: 0036740482     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/ep.8.5.373     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Conn JW. Primary aldosteronism, a new clinical syndrome. J Clin Lab Med. 1955;45:6-15.
2. Young WF Jr, Hogan MJ, Klee GG, Grant CS, van Heerden JA. Primary aldosteronism: diagnosis and treatment. Mayo Clin Proc. 1990;65:96-110.
3. Hiramatsu K, Yamada T, Yukimura Y, et al. A screening test to identify aldosterone-producing adenoma by measuring plasma renin activity: results in hypertensive patients. Arch Intern Med. 1981;141:1589-1593.
4. Weinberger MH, Fineberg NS. The diagnosis of primary aldosteronism and separation of two major subtypes. Arch Intern Med 1993; 153:2125-2129.
5. Blumenfeld JD, Sealey JE, Schlussel Y, et al. Diagnosis and treatment of primary hyperaldosteronism. Ann Intern Med 1994;121:877-885.
6. Melby JC, Spark RF, Dale SL, Egdahl RH, Kahn PC. Diagnosis and localization of aldosterone-producing adenomas by adrenal-vein catheterization. N Engl J Med. 1967;277:1050-1056.
7. McNicholas MM, Lee MJ, Mayo-Smith WW, Hahn PF, Boland GW, Mueller PR. An imaging algorithm for the differential diagnosis of adrenal adenomas and metastases. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1995; 165:1453-1459.
8. Stratakis CA, Chrousos GP. Adrenal cancer. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2000;29:15-25, vii-viii.
9. Pommier RF, Brennan MF. An eleven-year experience with adrenocortical carcinoma [with discussion]. Surgery. 1992; 112:963-971.
10. Bertagna C, Orth DN. Clinical and laboratory findings and results of therapy in 58 patients with adrenocortical tumors admitted to a single medical center (1951 to 1978). Am J Med. 1981;71:855-875.
11. Luton JP, Cerdas S, Billaud L, et al. Clinical features of adrenocortical carcinoma, prognostic factors, and the effect of mitotane therapy. N Engl J Med. 1990;322:1195-1201.
12. Schteingart DE, Oberman HA, Friedman BA, Conn JW. Adrenal cortical neoplasms producing Cushing's syndrome: a clinicopathologic study. Cancer. 1968;22:1005-1013.
13. Freeman DA. Steroid hormone-producing tumors in man. Endocr Rev. 1986;7:204-220.
14. Henley DJ, van Heerden JA, Grant CS, Carney JA, Carpenter PC. Adrenal cortical carcinoma-a continuing challenge. Surgery. 1983;94:926-931.
15. Medeiros LJ, Weiss LM. New developments in the pathologic diagnosis of adrenal cortical neoplasms: a review. Am J Clin Pathol. 1992;97:73-83.
16. Lack EE, Travis WD, Oertel JD. Adrenocortical neoplasms. In: Lack EE, ed. Pathology of the Adrenal Glands. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1990: 115-171.
17. Weiss LM. Comparative histologic study of 43 metastasizing and nonmetastasizing adrenocortical tumors. Am J Surg Pathol. 1984;8:163-169.
18. Salassa RM, Weeks RE, Northcutt RC, Carney JA. Primary aldosteronism and malignant adrenocortical neoplasia. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 1975;86:163-172.
19. Lipsett MB, Hertz R, Ross GT. Clinical and pathologic aspects of adrenocortical carcinoma. Am J Med. 1963;35:374-383.
20. Slee PH, Schaberg A, Van Brummelen P. Carcinoma of the adrenal cortex causing primary hyperaldosteronism: a case report and review of the literature. Cancer. 1983;51:2341-2345.
21. Sakashita S, Kashiwagi A, Maru A, et al. Primary aldosteronism due to adrenal cortical carcinoma. J Urol. 1984;132:959-961.
22. Greathouse DJ, McDermott MT, Kidd GS, Hofeldt FD. Pure primary hyperaldosteronism due to an adrenal cortical carcinoma. Am J Med. 1984;76:1132-1136.