What Causes Recurrence Of Symptoms After Adrenal Gland Removal Surgery?

Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2015

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Question : I just had operation to remove an adrenal gland that had tumor. After operation on Dec 9 I felt great until I started back to work last week and all of a sudden for last three days ive had all my old symptons. Any info would be greatful

Answered by Dr. Monish De (13 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
PET scan

Detailed Answer:
Hi

Since you are having symptoms even after adrenal gland tumour removal i would advise you to do a PET scan to see whether the tumour was removed totally and there is no spread of the tumour to other distant organs of the body.

Regards

DR DE

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