Blake Michael A, Holalkere Nagaraj-Setty, Boland Giles W
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Radiol Clin North Am. 2008 Jan;46(1):65-78, vi. doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2008.01.003.
Imaging of the adrenal gland for characterization of adrenal lesions has made tremendous strides and new technologies continue to evolve. This article highlights the anatomic and physiologic imaging principles that underpin current major adrenal imaging modalities and the new techniques becoming available. This article focuses primarily on incidental adrenal lesions, which are encountered more frequently with increasing use of imaging. This article concludes with a brief discussion of the role of adrenal biopsy, performed less frequently because of the success of these noninvasive adrenal imaging advances.
用于肾上腺病变特征描述的肾上腺成像技术取得了巨大进展，新技术也在不断发展。本文重点介绍了支撑当前主要肾上腺成像方式的解剖学和生理学成像原理以及新出现的技术。本文主要关注偶发肾上腺病变，随着成像技术使用的增加，这类病变越来越常见。本文最后简要讨论了肾上腺活检的作用，由于这些非侵入性肾上腺成像技术的成功，肾上腺活检的使用频率降低。
