Possibilities of Metatron 4025 hunter NLS method in diagnostics of adrenals tumors
Adrenals tumors are registered comparatively rarely, but it is know that they are most frequently hormone-active and even at small sizes lead to various endocrine disorders. However sometimes in clinical practice there are adrenals tumors without clinical symptoms and vague complaints of patients.
References and our own experience show that period from appearance of the first symptoms till diagnosing varies from 6 months to 2 years.Early diagnostics of adrenals tumor has become an important clinical issue, which may be solved by application of non-linear diagnostics (Metatron 4025 Hunter NLS) along with CT, MRI and angiography.
Today NLS-graphy is one of the most informative and prospective methods of diagnostics. Thanks to easiness of application, high informativity and safety NLS-graphy becoming a method of choice even at the first stage of hardware methods of diagnostics. NLS method of study allowed to increase significantly percentage of early and accurate diagnostics of adrenals tumors. Along with introduction of the latest devices of a fourth generation it became possible to register any space-occupying formation sized about 0.2 cm, which exceeds CT in accuracy of diagnostics.
The objective of our work is to study possibilities of Metatron 4025 hunter NLS-graphy in diagnostics of adrenals tumors and to confirm that with proper methodological approach and availability of modern NLS-graphy equipment it is possible to diagnose space-occupying formation at least as good as with CT and MRI.
Material and methods
Clinical data: from June 2012 till May 2013 we studied 23 patients aged from 25 to 64, in which, in accordance with complaints analysis and clinical-laboratory data, we assumed adrenals tumors. All patients were subjected to kidneys and adrenals study in accordance with standard method with use of Metatron 4025 hunter device with 4.9 GHz generator frequency allowing to apply three-dimensional visualization of adrenals. At the same time we carried out spectral-entropic analysis (SEA) of adrenals tissue structure, which helped to identify pathomorphological picture of adrenals affection by comparison of a pathology spectrum to etalon processes.
Analysis of our findings evidences that correct diagnosis was set in 22 cases of 23 (95.6%). In one patient with Itsenko-Cushing syndrome NLS-graphy detected small hyperchromogenic formation (30-35 mm) in superior pole of right kidney, which had homogeneous internal structure and was identified as benign tumor of adrenal gland. CT was not applied, because we saw a typical clinical picture of Itsenko-Cushing syndrome, confirmed by SEA. During surgery we found nidal macronodular hyperplasia of a gland. SEA results were confirmed by histological study of removed formation.