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The section covers non-neoplastic pathologies of the adrenal gland. These uncommonly come to the pathologist. | |||
==Spironolactone bodies== | ==Spironolactone bodies== | ||
Features:<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kovacs K, Horvath E, Singer W |title=Fine structure and morphogenesis of spironolactone bodies in the zona glomerulosa of the human adrenal cortex |journal=J. Clin. Pathol. |volume=26 |issue=12 |pages=949-57 |year=1973 |month=December |pmid=4131694 |pmc=477936 |doi= |url=http://jcp.bmj.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=4131694}}</ref> | Features:<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kovacs K, Horvath E, Singer W |title=Fine structure and morphogenesis of spironolactone bodies in the zona glomerulosa of the human adrenal cortex |journal=J. Clin. Pathol. |volume=26 |issue=12 |pages=949-57 |year=1973 |month=December |pmid=4131694 |pmc=477936 |doi= |url=http://jcp.bmj.com/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=4131694}}</ref> | ||
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Image: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770213/figure/f1/ Haemorrhage in adrenal (nih.gov)]. | Image: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770213/figure/f1/ Haemorrhage in adrenal (nih.gov)]. | ||
==Adrenocortical insufficency disease== | |||
*[[AKA]] Addison's disease. | |||
===General=== | |||
*Adrenal insufficiency. | |||
Clinical: | |||
*Brown skin. | |||
*Hypotension. | |||
DDx:<ref name=Ref_PBoD8_1155>{{Ref PBoD8|1155}}</ref> | |||
*Autoimmune. | |||
*Tuberculosis. | |||
*[[AIDS]]. | |||
*Malignancy. | |||
===Microscopic=== | |||
Features: | |||
*Atrophic cortex. | |||
=Benign neoplasms= | =Benign neoplasms= | ||