Surgical treatment of adrenal tumors

Abstract

The following methods are usually used for evaluation of adrenal lesion: computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography and sometimes 123I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy. Malignant adrenal tumors, such as adrenocortical carcinoma and malignant pheochromocytoma, appear to have particularly aggressive course, which leads to high mortality rate among these patients, especially in the later stages of the disease. Thus, there is a statistically significant difference in patients’ survival depending on time to diagnosis and time to therapy initiation. In this article we analyze the results of surgical treatment in patients with adrenal tumors

Keywords

• adrenal tumors
• surgical treatment
• adrenocortical carcinoma
• malignant pheochromocytoma