Where is My Right Adrenal Gland?

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Something funny:

My CT scan did not mention any reference to the right adrenal gland, its size, or abnormalities there. So I complained to my doc that this is not an accurate CT (hehehehehe, the guy who signed bottom of the report, later I found to be a radiologist PhD professor head of graduate medical school!) and calculated from a research paper posted here in FILE section the odds ratios of accurate lateralization when CT is inaccurate to be 0.55 even when AVS is accurate, and claimed that with 55% chance which is equal to flipping a coin, I do not accept to take AVS test because CT is not accurate! and asked for MRI or something more advanced. I emailed this to my doc before visiting her the following week.

When I met my doc, as soon as she saw me told me: "Everyone in our department is talking about you!" and I said: "Oh dear! My adenoma must be that bad!". Tell the truth, if I knew the signature belonged to the head of graduate medical school, I would not dare writing that email! But I am glad I did.

However, subsequent to my email, the radiology department is now going through my CT scan images to find out about my right adrenal gland. I insisted on this because when CT scan shows a left adenoma then docs are biased to assume that this is the functioning adenoma and should be removed. But after I have seen a lot of papers on this lateralization, and especially autopsy tests to see if CT or AVS or ACS were correct, I realized that I have to push them to test until nearly certain which side is functional.

Max.