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There are only a few small case series and case reports describing these lesions. We report a series of five patients who presented with \u201cindeterminate\u201d abdominal cystic lesions and were later on found to have adrenal pseudocyst. Four out of five patients presented with non-specific abdominal symptoms, and one patient presented with symptoms suggestive of a functional adrenal tumor. The size of these tumors ranged from 6 to 30\u2009cm. They had variable radiological features and in two cases even a percutaneous biopsy could not establish the diagnosis. In four of these \u201cindeterminate\u201d abdominal masses, an adrenal origin was not suspected preoperatively. 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