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35 year old male with abdominal pain Imaging Findings An axial non-contrast CT scan demonstrates a hypodense nodule in the right adrenal gland with attenuation value of 3 Hounsfield units (Fig. 1.1).
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Harisinghani, M.G., Rajesh, A. (2015). Adrenal Gland. In: Genitourinary Imaging. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4772-5_1
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