SPONTANEOUSLY REGRESSIVE BILATERAL ADRENAL TUMORAL FORMATION

A case of bilateral adrenal tumoral formation associated with Addison' s disease is reported, and the possible cause of this association is d iscussed. The short-term deleterious course of metastatic malignancies , haemopathies or severe infections when left without specific treatme nt, and the long-term course of our patient's tumoral pathology exclud ed these diagnoses. The spontaneous regression of a bilateral pseudotu moral mass was suggestive of 2 causes: haematoma or tuberculosis. Haem atoma was unlikely in the absence of causal factors, and this, combine d with the slow regression of the adrenals, made tuberculosis the most probable diagnosis. The few similar cases found in the literature are reviewed.