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  • Title: The dexamethasone-modified adrenal scintiscan in hyporeninemic aldosteronism (tumor versus hyperplasia). A comparison with adrenal venography and adrenal venous aldosterone.
    Author: Conn JW, Cohen EL, Herwig KR.
    Journal: J Lab Clin Med; 1976 Nov; 88(5):841-56. PubMed ID: 978047.
    Abstract:
    The dexamethasone-modified adrenal scintiscan, a noninvasive procedure, is described for the preoperative distinction between primary aldosteronism (aldosterone-producing ademona) and idiopathic aldosteronism (bilateral hyperplasia) and for the preoperative localization of aldostersone-producing adenomas. This procedure has been carried out on 17 subsequently proved cases of primary aldosteronism and nine cases (four unexplored) of idiopathic aldosteronism. In the tumor cases, it indicated correctly the side of the tumor in 88 per cent. It was correct in predicting the existence of bilateral hyperplasia in all of the five cases explored. It produced the same response in four more cases believed to have bilateral hyperplasia, in which surgical exploration has not been carried out. Many of the same patients had, in addition, standard adrenal scintiscans (SS), adrenal venography, and determinations of aldosterone in adrenal venous blood. These results are compared with those of the dexamethasone scintiscan (DS). In tumor localization, the 88 per cent figure for the DS was only moderately better than that of the other three (71 per cent, SS; 80 per cent, venography; 80 per cent, adrenal venous aldosterone levels). However, in predicting bilateral hyperplasia, the DS was 100 per cent correct, as were the levels of aldosterone in adrenal venous blood. The SS and adrenal venography failed in bilateral hyperplasia and gave many false-positive results indicating tumor. The DS, a relatively simple outpatient procedure, appears to be at least as effective, both in lateralizing tumors and distinguishing between tumor and bilateral hyperplasia, as the more difficult, expensive, and sometimes hazardous invasive procedure of bilateral adrenal vein catheterization.
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