IN KEEPING with advances in the fields of endocrinology and surgery, lesions involving the adrenal gland have received more attention during recent years. However, benign cystic lesions of the adrenal continue to be rare, perhaps because they are not usually symptomatic until they are large enough to produce pressure on contiguous organs. The most common variety of adrenal cyst is the so-called pseudocyst, usually the result of intraglandular hemorrhage from trauma, tumors, vascular lesions, bleeding diatheses, shock, or septic infarcts.5
Salmonella infection, on the other hand, is a common disorder which may be becoming more common.2,9 It may present, in the relative order of frequency, as a gastroenteritis, an enteric fever, a carrier state, or a bacteremia with or without localization in areas outside the gastrointestinal tract.13 The bacteremic form has been known to cause focal abscesses in numerous areas such as the bones, joints, skin and