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BACKGROUND:To evaluate if laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA) has changed the indications for adrenalectomy. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of patients with adrenal lesions referred from 1992 to 2004. Patients were divided into 2 groups, those before and those after the introduction of LA. RESULTS:One hundred eighty patients were assessed. Functioning lesions were found in 120 (66%) patients. Sixty patients had nonfunctioning tumors. Before the introduction of LA, 13% had primary hyperaldosteronism (PA), 23% had pheochromocytoma (Pheo), 20% had Cushing's syndrome (CS), and 7% had adrenal cortical cancer (ACC). No difference was seen in the percentage of patients referred after LA with Pheo (20%), CS (16%), or ACC (6%). There was, however, a significant increase in the percentage of patients referred with PA after introducing LA (13% vs. 27%), P < .05. CONCLUSION:Indications for adrenalectomy have not changed since introduction of LA. There was, however, an increased percentage of patients with PA referred since the introduction of LA.
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Am J Surgjournal_title
American journal of surgeryauthors
Chavez-Rodriguez J,Pasieka JLdoi
10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.02.003subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-05-01 00:00:00pages
581-5; discussion 585-6issue
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0002-9610issn
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S0002-9610(05)00168-6journal_volume
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