title: [Surgery of the adrenals: result of 154 operations (author's transl)].
abstract: Biochemical and radiological results, surgical technique and its results were critically analysed in a retrospective study of 154 operations on the adrenals in 127 patients, operated on between 1957 and 1980. There were no complications in 95 patients. In the remaining 32, both intra- and postoperative complication rate was greater after extraperitoneal than transabdominal approach to the adrenals. Postoperative mortality was 6%, but since 1967 only two patients have died in the postoperative period. Thromboembolic phenomena were the main cause of death, patients with Cushing's disease most commonly having this complication.
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003480:Cushing Syndrome / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000601:surgery; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Nebennierenchirurgie. Bericht über 154 operative Eingriffe.