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*Basic Principles and Practice in Surgery*

**7. Conclusion**

**Figure 5.**

*adenoma.*

cal treatment.

**Conflict of interest**

**Abbreviations**

Patients diagnosed with adrenal lesions should undergo a thorough assessment

*Magnetic resonance imaging axial T1-weighted phase GRE (A) and axial out-of-phase sequences (B) demonstrate right adrenal lesions signal loss (arrows), allowing the diagnosis of microscopic lipid-rich* 

Functioning adrenal tumors or those likely to be malignant should lead to surgi-

Special care should be taken in preparation prior to adrenalectomy of patients

of functioning in light of the possibility of malignancy.

None of the authors have any conflict of interest.

ACTH adrenocorticotropic hormone

UH Hounsfield units H&E hematoxylin and eosin

SC serum cortisol UFC urine-free cortisol FSE fast spin echo GRE gradient echo

that might suffer from functioning tumors or pheochromocytoma.

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Bruno Costa do Prado1 \*, Alana Rocha Puppim2 , Jose Tadeu Carvalho Martins2 , Fabiana Lima Marques2 , Robson Dettman Jarske1 and Octavio Meneghelli Galvão Gonçalves3

1 Department of Urology, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo [Espírito Santo Federal University], Vitória (ES), Brazil

2 Department of Clinical Medicine, Universidade de Vila Velha [Vila Velha University], Vila Velha (ES), Brazil

3 Department of Radiology, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo [Espírito Santo Federal University], Vitória (ES), Brazil

\*Address all correspondence to: brunocostadoprado@gmail.com

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