A clinical Audit: diagnostic and epidemiological evaluation of the Adrenal Incidentaloma (AI).

A clinical Audit: diagnostic and epidemiological evaluation of the Adrenal Incidentaloma (AI). Minerva Endocrinol. 2018 Feb 13;: Authors: Nuzzo V, Attardo T, Augello G, Brancato D, Camerlingo S, Canale C, Coretti F, Franco A, Giacometti F, Gambacorta M, Loreno M, Maffettone A, Provenzano V, Zuccoli A Abstract Audit is a clinical instrument of government characterized by a whole process of evaluation inter pares to improve medical behaviors in the clinical practice. Different endocrinopathies are underestimated in the clinical and diagnostics practice but they can be a real problem in patients admitted in the departments of Internal Medicine. The Adrenal Incidentaloma (AI) is an accidental discovery with an incidence equal to 4% in radiologic studies but it's rarely considereted in the internal disorders. In the departments of Internal Medicine are hospitalized each year approximately 1.450.000 patients and 58.000 about them show a surrenalic lesion identified with CT or MRI as Adrenal Incidentaloma. Through a search in the radiological archives, were reviewed all abdominal CT performed in the year 2012 in 8 departments of Internal Medicine of 8 Italian public hospitals. They also examined all medical records of these patients to value clinical management of the adrenal masses and the real incidence of the Adrenal Incidentaloma. Distribution of patological results show an important incidence about Adrenal Incidentaloma in Italian pati...
Source: Minerva Endocrinologica - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Minerva Endocrinol Source Type: research