Variant adrenal venous anatomy in 546 laparoscopic adrenalectomies

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 378-383

  Scholten, Anouk ^a,b   Cisco, Robin M ^a   Vriens, Menno R ^b   Shen, Wen T ^a   Duh, Quan Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; CUSHING SYNDROME; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INFERIOR PHRENIC VEIN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SUPRARENAL VEIN; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VEIN;

EID: 84876796969     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.610     Document Type: Article

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