Performing laparoscopic adrenalectomy safely

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1243-1247

  Kalan, Mohammed M H ^a   Tillou, Gregory ^e   Kulick, Aaron ^b   Wilcox, Christopher S ^c   Garcia, Alvaro I ^d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c Cardiovascular Kidney Hypertension Institute   (United States)

^d Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; KETOCONAZOLE; METYRAPONE; MITOTANE; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; PRAZOSIN; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ALDOSTERONOMA; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CANCER SIZE; CAUTERIZATION; CAVA VEIN DISEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; FLANK PAIN; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPERTENSION; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER INJURY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MUSCLE INJURY; NERVE INJURY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERITONEUM; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SCALPEL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY;

EID: 7744238180     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.11.1243     Document Type: Article

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