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Chronic adrenal insufficiency Patients with chronic adrenal insu ffi ciency may also be di ffi cult to...

ADRENAL HAEMORRHAGE Definition Adrenal haemorrhage is a serious condition that can result in adren...

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY Adrenal insu ffi ciency may be primary , secondary or tertiary . Primary insu...

ANATOMY Adrenal glands The weight of a normal adrenal gland is approximately 4 /uni00A0 g. The a...

Stomach Incidence These are rare with an incidence of 0.2 per 100 /uni00A0 000 population per ye...

Treatment Medical Metyrapone or ketoconazole therapy reduces steroid synthesis and secretion by C...

Physiology of the endocrine pancreas The endocrine cells of the pancreas are grouped in the isle...

SURGERY OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS Since its description in the 1990s by Gagner, laparoscopic adre - n...

Small intestine Incidence Midgut carcinoids are the most common NETs with a peak age of diagnosi...

PANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOURS Introduction As with neuroendocrine cells in the intestine, pan...

PHYSIOLOGY The outer zona glomerulosa secretes the C21 steroid aldosterone. The zona fasciculata ...

Pathogenesis Historically , tumours arising from the neuroendocrine cells were referred to as ‘ka...

Neuroblastoma Definition Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common and deadliest solid extracranial ma...

Non-functioning pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours Definition P-NETs are clinically classified as no...

OF THE STOMACH AND SMALL INTESTINE Embryology and physiology The embryology of the intestine is ...

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A . ). In Epidemiology and genetics MEN /uni00A0 2A has a prev...

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B Epidemiology and genetics - This has a prevalence of 0.2 in...

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 4 Described in 2006, this is an exceptionally rare autosomal do...

Metastases Definition Adrenal metastases are not uncommon and often portend - disseminated incurab...

Minimally invasive adrenalectomy Transperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalectomy Familiarity with the ...