What is an incidentaloma?
The incidentaloma is a random adenoma or the adrenal tumor by accidentally found a medical physician. When a patient has unrelated symptoms such as abdominal pain, the doctor may order the patient to obtain the whole body scan, which in turn reveals the presence of a tumor. The tumor may be benign or cancer and left patients and doctors to decide what actions, if existed, to do with growth.
patients who are older are at greater risk of incidentaloma, although they never have to show any symptoms. Because the tumor does not have to represent any health damage, their presence is usually discovered only when the patient suffers from another health condition that includes organs in the abdomen. The patient should seek the opinion of the second radiologist about the nature of detected growth before they agree with the invasive medical treatment.
symptoms usually do not present themselves in a patient who has an incidental if growing is malignant and functional or produces hormones that enter the rest of the body. High blood pressure is the most common symptom of active growth. Other indications that malignant growth are present are heart palpitations, weakness in the patient's muscles, general anxiety without explanation and flushing or redness in the patient's skin. Any symptoms can be easily accused of other suspects or already known health conditions faced by the patient.
The treatment of the incidentaloma may vary depending on whether the doctor feels that growth is benign and non -functional, or malignant and functional. Laboratory tests can be performed on growth to help determine whether it is malignant and functional. For patients who have benign and non -functional growth. The patient may also undergo regular hormonal laboratory tests to ensure that growth has not started to produce and release hormones into his body.
If the patient is found to have a functional tumor, then surgery is the only option to removeAny risk to the patient's health. Due to the possible trauma, which has suffered the adrenal glands of surgery, the patient may need to take hormonal drugs until the adrenal glands return to their normal functioning. Patients taking high blood pressure drugs may not take any or as many drugs as before surgery, as growth removal may also reduce the patient's blood pressure.