Predicting morphological and functional variations of benign adrenal incidentalomas in relation to initial characteristics.

ABSTRACT: The follow-up strategy for unresected non-functional adrenal tumors (NFAT) is a major controversial issue in endocrinological clinical practice, as the natural history of adrenal incidentalomas (AI) is partially unknown and a consensus on their adequate management is lacking. In a recent longitudinal study by Ceccato et al., a large cohort of patients with conservatively treated AI were evaluated for possible radiological variations over time and their relationship with autonomous cortisol secretion (ACS). Starting from this paper, we performed a literature review of available longitudinal studies focus on the same issue. Notwithstanding the high variability in the duration of follow-up and in the criteria used to define ACS in the included studies, our findings support the idea that there

SUBMITTER: Parazzoli C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10280065 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature