Abstract:
:Surgical experience with adrenal disease from 1970 to 1979 was reviewed in 315 patients. The pathologic conditions that were encountered were hypercortisolism (74 patients), hyperaldosteronism (46 patients), adrenocortical carcinoma (35 patients), pheochromocytoma (77 patients), and nonfunctioning adenoma (47 patients). In addition, 5 patients with metastatic lesions, 14 with cysts, and 4 with myelolipoma were surgically treated. The accuracy of localizing adrenal lesions increased from about 50 percent to almost 100 percent during the decade studied. The increase was due mainly to the introduction of computerized tomography, the most important advance in the management of adrenal disease. The present study shows that adrenal surgery can be performed with low morbidity and mortality. Operative deaths were confined to patients with malignant disease or increased secretion of cortisol or catecholamines. Only patients with adrenocortical carcinoma (2 year survival probability, 34 percent) or hypercortisolism due to cortical hyperplasia (5 year survival probability, 76 percent) had significantly decreased survival.
journal_name
Am J Surgjournal_title
American journal of surgeryauthors
Hamberger B,Russell CF,van Heerden JA,ReMine WH,Northcutt RC,Sheedy PF 2nd,Edis AJ,Ilstrup DMdoi
10.1016/0002-9610(82)90571-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1982-11-01 00:00:00pages
523-6issue
5eissn
0002-9610issn
1879-1883pii
0002-9610(82)90571-2journal_volume
144pub_type
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