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Retroperitoneoscopic Anatomical Adrenalectomy

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More than 90% of adrenal tumors are benign lesions and small in size. It has a complex anatomy due to the deep location and closely related to many important structures including liver, spleen, pancreas, inferior vena cava and renal vessels. Open adrenectomy requires 20–30 cm length skin incision to resect a 2–3 cm tumors. This is a complicated surgery with high risk of mortality when injury to major vessels and vital organs. Laparoscopic technology, has gained great popularity worldwide for its prominent minimally invasive advantages including less traumatic, quick recovery, minimal postoperative pain, shorter hospital stay and small scar. With the evidences from large number of clinical trials and multi-center comparative analysis, it has replaced the open surgery as the mainstream surgical approach in the era of minimally invasive surgery due to its safety and reliability.

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    Bin Fu

  2. Department of Urology, The First Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

    Xin Ma, Hongzhao Li & Xu Zhang

  3. Department of Urology, Wuhan Fourth Hospital, Puai Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Tao Zheng

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Fu, B., Ma, X., Li, H., Zheng, T., Zhang, X. (2020). Retroperitoneoscopic Anatomical Adrenalectomy. In: Zhang, X. (eds) Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery in Urology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3738-3_2

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