The characteristics of nine patients with adrenal incidentalomas.

With the widening use of computerized tomography, the incidentaloma, an adenoma found incidentally in the adrenal, in computerized tomograms obtained for problems not necessarily related to the adrenal, has emerged as a recent clinical entity. Nine cases with such tumors are presented, here, along with a brief review of the related medical literature. Endocrine and other studies have shown that two of these nine patients had hormone secreting adrenal tumors, two pheochromocytomas.