[Hand-assisted laparoscopic adrenalectomy to a solitary adrenal metastasis from lung cancer].
A 75-year-old man with right chest pain was diagnosed with primary lung cancer in the right apical portion, and was treated with chemoradiotherapy because of a synchronous left adrenal tumor of 1.6 cm. Since the adrenal tumor did not increase in size for three months and there were no other relapses, the right upper lobectomy of the lung with the excision of the chest wall was performed. Afterward, an enlargement of the left adrenal tumor was encountered; he was admitted to our hospital for an operation. For the metastatic adrenal tumor from lung cancer, we performed a hand-assisted laparoscopic adrenalectomy. He recovered rapidly and returned to the previous hospital in two weeks after the operation. After the first report in 1992, the laparoscopic adrenalectomy has been established as the curative operation to adrenal benign tumor. The indication is being expanded to the malignancy because of the improvement of operation techniques and advancement of the operation equipments. We conclude that the laparoscopic adrenalectomy for malignant tumor is a safe, curative, and clinically useful surgical technique.
Suyama
Koichi
K
Dept of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University.
Beppu
Toru
T
Isiko
Takatoshi
T
Sugiyama
Shin-ichi
S
Doi
Koichi
K
Masuda
Toshiro
T
Ikeda
Osamu
O
Takamori
Hiroshi
H
Tsuji
Ryuya
R
Kanemitsu
Keiichiro
K
Egami
Hiroshi
H
Baba
Hideo
H
Saisyoji
Tetsushi
T
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D000315:Adrenalectomy / Q000379:methods*; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy