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[Diagnostic and therapeutic approach to incidentally detected adrenal tumors]
F Tridico1, P Panier Suffat, S Zan
1Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica e Terapia Chirurgica, Università degli Studi, Torino.
Minerva Chirurgica
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
The authors report their experience relative to 12 cases of adrenal "incidentaloma" surgically treated. All masses removed had a main diameter larger than 3 cm. In all patients an anterior median transperitoneal incision was performed. They didn't record postoperative mortality and the postoperative morbidity rate was 15%. In 6 cases a nonfunctioning cortical adenoma was diagnosed. No malignant neoplasm was detected in their series.