An adrenal gland adenoma is a tumor on your adrenal gland that isn’t cancer, but can still cause problems. Learn what causes them, how to know if you might have one, and how they’re treated.

Primary aldosteronism was first described by Jerome Conn in 1955 in a patient with an aldosterone-producing adrenal adenoma. It’s now a widely recognized cause of secondary hypertension. The ...

Adrenal tumors include nonfunctional adenomas (NFAs), which do not produce aldosterone, and aldosterone-producing adenomas (APAs), which do," explains lead author of the study Masanori Murakami.

Ultimately, for adrenal masses assessed by single-phase portal-venous phase DECT, when maintaining 100% specificity, sensitivity for adenoma was significantly higher for fat fraction [59% (95% CI ...