Hormone-Producing Tumor of Adrenal Cortex, with Congenital Absence of Contralateral Adrenal Gland

Abstract

ALTHOUGH hyperfunctioning tumors of the adrenal cortex are rare, they are the subject of an increasing number of reports in the current literature owing both to improved diagnostic procedures, such as perirenal air insufflation and assay of the sex hormones excreted in the urine, and to increasing knowledge of the physiology of the adrenal cortex, especially in its interlocking relation with the function of the pituitary gland and the gonads.The purpose of this communication is to present a case of a hormone-producing tumor of the adrenal cortex characterized by the symptomatology of Cushing's syndrome and associated with complete absence . . .