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The role of laparoscopy for the treatment of adrenal carcinoma remains controversial. The lack of a capsule around the adrenal gland and the propensity of primary tumors to invade the surrounding fat, make it difficult to ensure a wide surgical margin. When coupled with the technical challenges of operating in this small space with ill-defined planes, it is hard for laparoscopic surgeons to adhere to strict oncologic principles. Unfortunately, for many of these patients, these same difficulties also apply to open surgery, leading to very poor 5-yr survival rates for patients with primary adrenal carcinoma (1,2).
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Pietrow, P.K., Albala, D.M. (2004). Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for Carcinoma. In: Cadeddu, J.A. (eds) Laparoscopic Urologic Oncology. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-425-2_12
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