In adrenal Cushing's syndrome, excess cortisol is produced by adrenal gland tumors or hyperplastic adrenal glands. Your physician will perform a history and physical examination for symptoms and signs of excessive hormonal production, and order blood and urine tests to rule out overproduction of hormones by the incidentaloma. An adrenal incidentaloma is found in up to 5% of all people who are undergoing imaging studies for another medical condition. Most adrenal tumors do not produce hormones (non-functional) and are found incidentally on CT or MR imaging and therefore do not cause symptoms.
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