Open AccessWeiss criteria in large adrenocortical tumors: A validation study
Author(s) -
Manoj Jain,
Shalini Kapoor,
Anand Mishra,
Sushil K. Gupta,
Amit Agarwal
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology/indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/0377-4929.64325
Subject(s) - adrenocortical carcinoma , malignancy , adrenal cortex , medicine , adrenocortical adenoma , adenoma , pathology , gastroenterology
Several systems including pathologic criteria alone or in combination with clinical features have been proposed to differentiate between benign and malignant adrenocortical tumors and assess their prognosis. The Weiss system appears to be the most commonly used method for assessing malignancy but there are only a few studies which have evaluated its diagnostic power. Since we see large adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), we attempt to evaluate the diagnostic power of Weiss system in large ACC.