Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma is classically associated with a dismal prognosis.

Yet its clinical presentation is changing (more and more classified as "incidentaloma").

New insights have emerged on its pathophysiological mechanisms (through the genetic

elucidation of familial syndromes), and Reference Centers within National and

European Networks are now offering more standardized and efficient multidisciplinary

clinical management of these difficult patients.

All these important aspects are described by experts in nine chapters dealing with

epidemiology, prognosis, and clinical management, pathology, molecular pathophysiological

mechanisms, modern imaging approaches, surgical and chemotherapeutical

approaches of primary and secondary lesions, and the particular aspects of adrenal

cortical carcinoma in children.

This book, with its many figures and photographs, will be of major interest to

endocrinologists, radiologists and nuclear medicine experts, pathologists, surgeons,

oncologists, pediatricians.

After a thorough reading, one will better recognize a suspicious adrenal "incidentaloma",

diagnose steroid hypersecretion, suspect a familial disease, consult with the pathologist

and surgeon, manipulate difficult drugs like O,p'DDD, participate in multidisciplinary

discussions with oncologists, radiotherapeutists, molecular biologists... Modern medicine

in action!