INFO/WWW-LINKS: About 60% of pancreatic tumors involve the head of pancreas, 15% the tail and 25% the ampulla. Clinical features are dyspepsia, cachexia, fever, jaundice in case of billary duct obstruction and pancreatitis caused by pancreatic duct obstruction.
Enlargement of the adrenal grand, better the adrenal cortex) may be seen in Cushing`s syndrome caused by tumor or hyperplasia resulting in a glucocorticoid excess or in Conn`s syndrome resulting in mineralocorticoid excess. Another tumor of the adrenal gland is the paeochromocytoma. Nearly all paeochromocytomas develop from the adrenal medulla - only a few arise from the sympathetic chain. Non-functioning adenomas are usually small, well-circumscribed, and there is low attenuation value and they are smaller than 3 cm in diameter. Larger lesions of the adrenal gland suggest primary and secondary malignancy (especially in bronchial-, mammacarcinoma and melanoma)