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Although adrenal lesions are not common in the routine practice of diagnostic radiology, they are at present being identified more frequently because of the availability of new imaging modalities, ultrasound and computed tomography (CT). The incidence of adrenal metastases is surprisingly high in certain types of malignant tumour, such as carcinoma of the breast, lung and melanoma [1–4]. However, in general they are clinically silent because they fail to destroy enough tissue to cause clinical symptoms of adrenal insufficiency.
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Zornoza, J. (1988). Percutaneous Biopsy of Adrenal Tumours. In: Luciani, L., Piscioli, F. (eds) Aspiration Cytology in the Staging of Urological Cancer. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1452-9_36
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