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Background: Among several minimally invasive adrenalectomy techniques, lateral transperitoneal adrenalectomy (LTA) is the procedure of choice for benign adrenal tumors; however, posterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy (PRA) is an alternative that is
Young Jun Chai +5 more
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A Case of 10-Year Survival after Adrenalectomy for Isolated Adrenal Metastasis of Breast Cancer
Isolated adrenal metastasis of breast cancer is very rare, so adrenalectomy for breast cancer metastasis is rarely performed. The case of a breast cancer patient with five-year survival after resection of a left isolated adrenal metastasis is presented ...
Tsuyoshi Nakagawa +4 more
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In an era when minimally invasive adrenalectomy is the gold standard treatment for majority of patients presenting with adrenal tumours, open adrenalectomy has become an operation that should be centralised in regional referral centers. Its main indication is represented by patients with large (>8 cm) phaeochromocytomas and patients with cortical ...
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Plasma N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide as Prognostic Marker in Fatal Cardial Decompensation with Sunitinib Malate Therapy [PDF]
A 74-year-old man with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and a history of cardiac failure was treated with sunitinib malate. MUGA echocardiography could not detect a relevant change in the ejection fraction although the clinical situation of the patient ...
Haseke, Nicolas +4 more
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ABSTRACT Introduction Distinguishing adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) from adenoma is often difficult, particularly in hormonally active tumors with borderline histologic features. Case Presentation A 55‐year‐old woman presented with abdominal distension and central obesity. Hormonal evaluation confirmed ACTH‐independent Cushing's syndrome.
Fumihiro Ito +4 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Mild autonomous cortisol secretion (MACS) is associated with increased cardiometabolic risk factors including hypertension, type 2 diabetes and dyslipidaemia. By using evening doses of metyrapone, a short‐acting 11‐β hydroxylase inhibitor, it has been shown that it is possible to reset the abnormal circadian cortisol rhythm in MACS ...
Simon Berry +3 more
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Background: In primary aldosteronism (PA), kidney function impairment could be concealed by relative hyperfiltration and emerge after adrenalectomy.
Hung-Wei Liao +8 more
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Single center experience with laparoscopic adrenalectomy on a large clinical series [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is considered the gold standard technique for the treatment of benign small and medium size adrenal masses (
Avenia, Nicola +15 more
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Adrenarche as a regulator of sensitivity to early adversity
Abstract The human brain is highly sensitive to early adversity, which can have long‐term consequences for later mental health. It is also a time of rapid learning of social, motor and other skills, including language. It is proposed that pre‐adrenarche, the only epoch in human development in which cortisol is not accompanied by dehydroepiandrosterone (
J. Herbert
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OPPORTUNITIES AND CONTROVERSIES IN ADRENAL SURGERY
Introduction. Classical open techniques as well as minimally invasive laparoscopic techniques including robot-assisted are widely used in adrenalectomy. Each case of adrenalectomy requires a meticulous selection of the access route to the adrenal gland,
Tatiana Braescu
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