Adrenalectomy
Transperitoneal and retroperitoneal approaches to adrenalectomy evaluated
Published in Cancer Weekly, July 19th, 2005
According to a study from Germany, "Endoscopic adrenalectomy is currently performed using either a retroperitoneal or transperitoneal approach. The aim of this study was to determine which of these is the optimal surgical technique in a prospectively designed analysis of a large series of patients operated on by a single team over a 10-year period."
"From February 1994 to March 2004, 267 endoscopic adrenalectomies (retroperitoneal in 132 patients and transperitoneal in 135 patients) were performed in 245 consecutive patients. There were 102 right lateral...
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