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Konstantinos Sapalidis1, Christoforos Kosmidis1, Dimitrios Giannakidis1, Varvara Fyntanidou2, Anastasios Barmpas1, Paul Zarogoulidis1, Athanasios Katsaounis1, Charilaos Koulouris1, Nikolaos Michalopoulos1, Aikaterini Amaniti2, Zoi Aidoni1, Stelian Mogoanta3, Michael Karanikas4, Panagoula Oikonomou5, Konstantinos Romanidis5, Anastasios Vagionas6, Alexandru Marian Goganau7, Alexandru Munteanu1, Valeriou Surlin1, Isaak Kesisoglou1.
Abstract
Laparoscopic approach for suspected adrenal malignancies remains a controversial issue and it gets more controversial, when managing giant adrenal malignant tumors. The aim of this paper is to present five cases of patients with giant adrenal malignant tumors that underwent laparoscopic transabdominal lateral adrenalectomy in our department between 2010 and 2017. Literature is also reviewed in order to investigate the feasibility of laparoscopic resection in these cases. 2020 AME Case Reports. All rights reserved.Entities:
Keywords: Giant adrenal tumors; laparoscopic adrenalectomy; outcomes; transabdominal lateral position
Year: 2020 PMID: 32206753 PMCID: PMC7082331 DOI: 10.21037/acr.2019.11.04
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AME Case Rep ISSN: 2523-1995