WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for August, 2002: Re: nodule on adrenal gland

Re: nodule on adrenal gland

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:13:25 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 28 Aug 2002, joann wrote: >
>I had a chest cat scan done for problems with asthma , and that came
>back clear but there is a nodule on my adrenal gland..I was wondering
>how common this is in young women

Rare.

and the probability of it being >cancerous..

I don't know enough about it to give you a number.

I have no other symptoms associated w/ this and my docotr >isn't concerned but to be on the safe side is sending me for an
>MRI..what will the MRI tell?

I don't know. Ask for a consult from a MEDICAL ENDOCRINOLOGIST. That would be the expert in this area.

I am a nervous wreck..

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