Keywords
Addison´s disease
necrosis
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Abstract
Antiphospholipid syndrome is a disease that can manifest alone or associated with other conditions. Adrenal glands involvement is a rare presentation. There are few cases reported in the literature. We present two cases of patients with antiphospholipid syndrome that compromise the adrenal glands and behave very odd comparing to previous case reports.
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