The author and journal apologise for an error that occurredin the paper by Seccia et al. in the March 2005 issue of Endocrine-RelatedCancer12 149159, entitled Aldosterone-producingadrenocortical carcinoma: an unusual cause of Conns syndromewith an ominous clinical course. The error relates tothe measurement unit for increase of aldosterone from the uppernormal value, which should be fold increase and not % as erroneouslyprinted in Table 1 on page 153. The corrected table is publishedin full below:
Table 1 Demographic and clinical features. Median and range are given for age, diameter and weight; average and range are given for fold increase of plasma aldosterone levels; means ± S.E. are given for systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and plasma potassium levels