RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Adrenal cortical carcinoma: an unusual cause of hyperaldosteronism
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 731
OP 732
VO 129
IS 7
A1 Telner, A. H.
YR 1983
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/129/7/731.abstract
AB Although secondary hyperaldosteronism due to renal vein thrombosis may occur as a result of renal cell carcinoma or adrenal cortical carcinoma, primary hyperaldosteronism is rarely associated with the latter. This paper describes a patient with adrenal cortical carcinoma who presented with the clinical features of primary hyperaldosteronism 1 year after hypertension had been diagnosed; intravenous pyelography had not been done then. Drug therapy was ineffective, and the patient died 10 weeks after presentation.