Clinical research about treatment for adrenal incidentalomas / 中华外科杂志
Chinese Journal of Surgery
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(12): 832-834, 2008.
Article
in Chinese
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| ID: wpr-245473
ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the therapeutic methods of adrenal incidentalomas.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The data of 156 cases were analyzed retrospectively.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The operation were performed in 151 cases, radiotherapy and chemotherapy in 1 case and follow up in 4 cases. The diameter of the tumors were 1.3-15.0 cm. Pathological results indicated that 34 cases were pheochromocytoma, 83 adrenal cortical adenoma, 5 adrenal cortical carcinoma, 3 metastases carcinoma, and 26 other benign tumors. One hundred and thirty-six cases were followed-up for 1-7 years. 3 cases of metastases carcinoma died in 1.5 years, 2 cases of cortical carcinoma died in 2.0 and 2.5 years for recurrence and metastases. One hundred and thirty-one cases survived healthy, 3 cases of them take orally dexamethasone for 1 year after post-operation.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Surgical operations should be performed in malignant tumors, hypersecretion tumors, deuto-clinical adrenal cortical tumors, pheochromocytoma and those whose diameters of tumors are over 3 cm. But those whose tumors had non-hypersecretion and diameters are less than 3 cm should be followed up closely.</p>
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Main subject:
Pathology
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General Surgery
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Retrospective Studies
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Follow-Up Studies
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Adrenal Gland Neoplasms
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Adrenalectomy
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Surgery
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
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