[Adrenal tumours: diagnosis and modern surgical methods of treatment, including minimale invasive]

The results of diagnosis and treatment of 759 patients (aged from 8 to 78 years) with adrenal diseases were analyzed. A variety of clinical symptoms depended on the adrenal layer lesion. We analyzed the results of biochemical and instrumental methods of examination of patients, hormone levels in the blood, methods of preoperative preparation of patients, postoperative complications. The results of minimally invasive surgery of adrenal tumors were presented. From 1997 till 2010 endoscopic adrenalectomies performed in 81 patients.