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A case of successful laparoscopic resection of adrenal gland endometriosis
Jamil Rehman1, Gazi Yildirim, Sardar A Khan
1Department of Urology, SUNY-Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
Objective:
To present a case of successful laparoscopic resection of adrenal endometriosis.
Design:
Case report.
Setting:
University Hospital.
Patient(S):
Forty-eight-year-old woman with left-sided abdominal and flank pain.
Intervention(S):
Laparoscopic radical adrenalectomy.
Main Outcome Measure(S):
Diagnosis and surgical approach to adrenal endometriosis.
Result(S):
There have been two case reports of adrenal endometriosis. Based on a search of Medline and Google for "adrenal endometriosis," this is the first known successful laparoscopic resection of adrenal endometriosis.
Conclusion(S):
We report the first case of successful laparoscopic adrenalectomy for the treatment of endometriosis.
