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Hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex (hypercorticalism) may be associated with either hyperplasia, or benign or malignant neoplasms. Hyperplasia is in our experience always bilateral, neoplasia almost always unilateral.
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Neville, A.M., O’Hare, M.J. (1982). General Incidence and Pathological Changes. In: The Human Adrenal Cortex. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1317-1_11
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