Recommendation for laparoscopic ultrasound guided laparoscopic left lateral transabdominal adrenalectomy | Zendy

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Recommendation for laparoscopic ultrasound guided laparoscopic left lateral transabdominal adrenalectomy

Author(s) -

Maciej Sebastian,

Jerzy Rudnicki

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

gland surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.643

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 2227-8575

pISSN - 2227-684X

DOI - 10.21037/gs.2020.03.35

Subject(s) - medicine , adrenalectomy , dissection (medical) , ultrasound , surgery , laparoscopic surgery , laparoscopy , radiology

Left sided adrenalectomy may be associated with intraoperative bleeding and conversion or injury of the pancreatic tail leading to postoperative fistula. Another problem may be the identification of adrenal mass in the case of previous upper abdominal surgery. Intraoperative laparoscopic ultrasound (LUS) enables the safe plane of dissection, identification of key structures and reduction of conversion and complication rate to the minimum.

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