Thoracoabdominal Adrenalectomy for Adrenal Pheochromocytoma / 대한비뇨기과학회지

ABSTRACT

In the cases of surgical approach for adrenal pheochromocytoma, successful ligation and severance of the adrenal vein at the start can make intraoperative circulatory kinetics stable and subsequent operative procedures very easy. Recently, we adopted the thoracoabdominal approach in 5 cases of 6 pheochromocytoma instead of transabdominal or translumbar approach which had so far been adopted for such tumors. The results revealed that the thoracoabdominal approach was very advantageous compared with these conventional approaches. Its main advantages include a wide and shallow operative field, early ligation and severance of the adrenal vein mobilization of the tumor, easy operative procedure and short operation time, etc.