On the casuistry of primary tumors of the adrenal medulla

Abstract

Primary tumors of the adrenal glands, as an object of surgical intervention for a practical surgeon, are very rare and usually unexpected. This type of neoplasm, already rare in itself, is more often included in the field of view of the pathologist at autopsies of cases where, during life, a completely different nature of the disease process was sometimes assumed. The clinical picture of the development of a tumor in the adrenal gland b. h. does not distinguish any particularly typical and reliable signs, guided by which it would be possible to determine the true nature of suffering with great probability. Therefore, as far as can be seen from the literature on this issue, a lifetime (before surgery) diagnosis of an adrenal tumor was established only in isolated cases.

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