PET/CT imaging with gallium-68 (Ga-68) pentixafor can effectively guide surgery for patients with primary aldosteronism, ...

Cushing’s syndrome, or hypercortisolism, is a condition caused by overproduction of cortisol — a hormone that regulates stress, metabolism, and immune response. While cortisol ...

The gland makes too much adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH). That causes the adrenal glands to make too many corticosteroids. Another main cause is taking steroid medicines like prednisone for a long ...

Symptoms of Cushing's syndrome include weight gain, a round "moon" face, easy bruising, fat around the base of the neck and the shoulders, stretch marks around the abdomen, hips, breasts and underarms ...

Pimples are usually a result of blocked pores or other benign skin conditions ... additional oil in the skin and causes acne-like conditions. Similarly, other adrenal gland tumors like adrenocortical ...

We performed this case-control study with 402 neuroblastoma patients and 473 cancer-free controls from Jiangsu Province, China. The TaqMan method was used to genotype the miR-618 rs2682818 ...

Vascular tumors of the liver in adult patients include cavernous hemangioma, a common benign tumor; epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, a rare, usually low-grade malignant tumor; and angiosarcoma ...

Most of the time, these tumors are benign and non-functioning ... and a lower prevalence in the right adrenal glands, of 35% and 50-60% 18. On the other hand, when evaluating age ranges, there is an ...

This type of tumor is larger than a microprolactinoma but smaller than a giant prolactinoma. Your pituitary gland is a pea-size gland found at the base of your brain that secretes many hormones.

Most tumors of the adrenal glands are benign (not cancer). Adrenal cancer is very rare. At Fred Hutch, our endocrine tumor specialists — all UW Medicine doctors — have experience evaluating and ...