Is laparoscopic adrenalectomy safe and effective for adrenal masses larger than 7 cm?

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 516-521

  Ramacciato, Giovanni ^a   Mercantini, Paolo ^a   Torre, Marco La ^a   Benedetto, Fabrizio Di ^a   Ercolani, Giorgio ^a   Ravaioli, Matteo ^a   Piccoli, Micaela ^a   Melotti, Gianluigi ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endocrinology; Surgical; Technical

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR TRANSPERITONEAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC ADRENALECTOMY; LATERAL TRANSPERITONEAL APPROACH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 39049129246     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9508-1     Document Type: Article

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