Chronic Adreno-Cortical Insufficency Associated with a Unilateral Adrenal Mass

Abdulaziz Almahrezi,1 Abdullah Balkhair,2 Saif Al-Yaarubi,3 Hatim Al Lawati,2 Faryal Al Lawati,2 Abdullah Al-Futaisi2


       

ABSTRACT

Adreno-cortical insufficiency in the context of an adrenal mass can be a challenging clinical problem. The two main possibilities are either a benign mass or a malignant pathology.1

We describe here a patient who was investigated for chronic adreno-cortical insufficiency and was found to have a left adrenal mass that was later confirmed histopathologically to be tuberculous in nature.

 

 Submitted: 29 August 2007

Reviewed: 5 October 2007

Accepted: 1 November 2007

From the departments of 1Department of Family Medicine & Public Health; 2Department of Medicine; 3Department of Child Health, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.

Address Correspondence and reprint request to: Abdullah Balkhair MD, FRCPC, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 35, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Email: balkhair2000@hotmail.com