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Case #6 -
A 45 year old with an adrenal mass on CT

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
3.) What further workup will you do?

Diagnostic evaluation:


  • Laboratory: 24 hour urine for free cortisol and for fractionated catecholamines

    and metanephrines; serum electrolytes; serum aldosterone and renin;

    serum dehydroepiandrosterone

  • Density measurement of the mass on CT scan

  • T2 weighted MRI
 
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