ArticleFrontiers in oncology2021
Comparison of Posterior Retroperitoneoscopic Adrenalectomy Versus Lateral Transperitoneal Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for Adrenal Tumors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Impact of Obesity on Short-Term Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Retroperitoneal Laparoscopic/Retroperitoneoscopic Adrenalectomy for Benign or Malignant Adrenal Diseases: A Meta-Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
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- A ten-year propensity score-matched comparison of lateral transabdominal and posterior retroperitoneoscopic approaches to adrenalectomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Impact of surgical technique on hemodynamic instability in patients with pheochromocytoma: a single-centre retrospective cohort study.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Article
- Does size still matter? - Feasibility of posterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy for tumors >6cm.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Article
- Single-Port Robotic Posterior Retroperitoneoscopic Adrenalectomy: Current Perspectives, Technical Considerations, and Future Directions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Benefits of transitioning from transperitoneal laparoscopic to retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy-a single center experience.Gland surgery · 2024Article
- Retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy may be superior to laparoscopic transperitoneal adrenalectomy in terms of costs and profit: a retrospective pair-matched cohort analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Observational
- Risk factors for intraoperative complications, postoperative complications, and prolonged length of stay after laparoscopic adrenalectomy by transperitoneal lateral approach: a retrospective cohort study of 547 procedures.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Article
- Defining the feasibility of same day adrenalectomy - A prospective matched cohort study.Surgery open science · 2023Article
- Peri- and postoperative outcomes of laparoscopic adrenalectomy in nonobese versus obese patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2022Review
- The Mount Sinai Clinical Pathway for the Diagnosis and Management of Hypercortisolism due to Ectopic ACTH Syndrome.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2022Article
- Synchronized Laparoscopic Bilateral Adrenalectomy for Pheochromocytoma in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndrome: A Case Report.Journal of kidney cancer and VHL · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo discuss the differences in the effectiveness and security for adrenal tumors by posterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy (PRA) and lateral transperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LTA).
methodsWe systematically searched PubMed, Embase, Scopus database and Cochrane Library, and the date was from above database establishment to November 2020. Stata 16 was used for calculation and statistical analyses.
resultsNine studies involving eight hundred patients were included. The following differences were observed in favor of PRA vs LTA: less operative time (MD: -22.5; 95% CI -32.57 to -12.45; P=0.000), Fewer estimated blood loss (MD: -15.17; 95% CI -26.63 to -3.72; P=0.009), lower intensity of postoperative pain (MD: -0.56; 95% CI, -1.05 to -0.07; P=0.026), shorter length of hospital stay (MD: -1.15; 95% CI -1.94 to -0.36; P=0.04). No differences were shown in conversion rate (OR 2.07; 95%CI 0.71 to 6.03; P=0.181) and complications (OR 0.85;95% CI 0.46 to 1.56; P=0.597).
conclusionsPosterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy was clinically superior to lateral transperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalectomy for adrenal tumors in operative time, estimated blood loss, length of hospital stay, and postoperative pain. Only in term of conversion rate and complications, both were similar.
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