An Adrenal Incidentaloma: How Often Is It Detected and What Are the Consequences?

Table 1

NIH guideline [10].

	NIH 2002
Functional adrenal incidentaloma (hormonal hypersecretion)	Surgical resection or medical treatment
Nonfunctional adrenal incidentaloma	>6 cm: surgical resection
	4–6 cm: resection or followup
Nonfunctional adrenal incidentaloma < 4 cm	No surgical resection, no recommendations about followup
Adrenal incidentaloma suspicious for metastasis	No benefit from resection