Posterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy: Preferred technique for removal of benign tumors and isolated metastases

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 666-672

  Perrier, Nancy D ^a,b   Kennamer, Debra L ^a   Bao, Ruijun ^a   Jimenez, Camilo ^a   Grubbs, Elizabeth G ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a   Evans, Douglas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CUSHING DISEASE; DATA BASE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FISTULA; JACKKNIFE POSITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTERIOR RETROPERITONEOSCOPIC ADRENALECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES; URINE RETENTION; ADRENAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; LAPAROSCOPY; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROPERITONEUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55449095600     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31818a1d2a     Document Type: Article

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