title: [Possibilities and limits of surgical treatment of malignant adrenal cortex carcinomas. Apropos of a series of 74 cases].
abstract: The aim of this study was to report our experience of 74 patients operated on for adrenocortical carcinomas in the last 15 years with particular reference to survival rate and prognostic factors. The tumors were secreting in 78% of the cases and non secreting in 22% of the cases, encompassing stade I: 7%, stade II: 43%, stade III: 21%, stade IV: 29%, according to the MacFarlane classification. All patients were operated on whatever the stade. Adrenalectomy with regional lymphadectomy was performed in 50% of the cases. Other procedures included extended adrenalectomy with nephrectomy (n = 27), hepatectomy (n = 7), and desobstruction or resection of inferior vena cava (n = 13). The resection was curative for 66% of the patients and palliative in 34% of the patients. Local recurrences were operated on in 13 patients. Operative mortality was 4%. Stade I and II had significantly the best actuarial survival rates (78 and 62% at 5 years, respectively), when compared to stade III (27%). Extension to the vena cava was not considered as a contra indication even in cases of massive extension. The survival rate of patients with local recurrences was the same as patients wich stade III: 32% at 5 years. Stade IV tumors had the poorer prognosis with a survival rate of 5% at 3 years. In this group, some patients may have benefited from mitotane. Further studies are mandatory to appreciate the benefit of adjuvant therapy with mitotane and palliative chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Clinique chirurgicale, hôpital Cochin, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chapuis
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Icard
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barei
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pitre
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dousset
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Louvel
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Luton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000306:Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000315:Adrenalectomy; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009392:Nephrectomy; D011379:Prognosis; D015996:Survival Rate