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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2011 Dec;150(6):1186–1193. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.09.026

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Shown is a 30-year old woman with history of hypertension and headache and sporadic adrenal PGL/pheochromocytoma. A, Axial contrast CT at the level of the right adrenal gland demonstrates a heterogeneously enhancing 4 × 4 × 5-cm mass consistent with right adrenal PGL/pheochromocytoma (white arrow). Portal venous phase CT attenuation of this mass was 65 HU. B, Axial T2-weighted image demonstrates homogenous T2 hyperintensity of patient’s right adrenal PGL. T2 signal is hypointense to CSF, but hyperintense to liver and spleen (group 2 classification according to criteria proposed by Jacques et al13). C, axial postcontrast MRIs demonstrate enhancing right adrenal PGL (white arrow). D, 18F-FDG-PET CT images demonstrate hypermetabolic focus corresponding to patient’s right adrenal PGL with maximal SUV of 6. The patient underwent right laparoscopic adrenalectomy, confirming right adrenal PGL/pheochromocytoma.