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CAPTAIN SIMON RUSSI; CAPTAIN HERMAN T. BLUMENTHAL; LIEUTENANT COMMANDER SAMUEL H. GRAY, MC(S), U.S.N.R.

Arch Intern Med. 1945;76(5):284-291.

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The principal observations generally reported concerning persons with tumors of the adrenal cortex consist of obesity, purple striae of the skin, acne, polycythemia,is, imbalanceplasma electrolytes, diabetes, hypertension genital dystrophy. These signs and symptoms have been observed in persons with adenohyperplasiasin those with carcinomas of the adrenal cortex, and the total picture is usually referred to as Cushing's disease or adrenogenital syndrome. In general, even the benign tumors which produce this clinical entity occupy a large portion of the adrenal gland. There are, in addition, as Kepler and Keating¹ pointed out, a large number of small cortical adenomasre encountereddentally in the course of routine autopsiespersons in whom there was no apparent clinical evidence of endocrine disease during life. The investigations presented here were undertaken in order to determine whether or not an examination of the clinical and pathologic data, in retrospect, would show the presence of certain endocrinologie disturbances not noted during the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

Footnotes
The investigations were aided by a grant from the David May-Florence.

This article is based entirely on investigations conducted at Snodgrastory, City Hospital and Laboratory of the Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

This article has been released for publication by the Division of Publications of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the United States Navy. The opinions and views set forth are those of the writers and are not to be construed as reflecting the policies of the Navypolicies of the Navy Department.

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