title: A case of port-site recurrence after laparoscopic adrenalectomy for solitary adrenal metastasis.
abstract: The case of a patient with bilateral adrenal metastases from lung cancer is described. A left open adrenalectomy at the time of the lung resection had a long-term curative effect. Several months later a right laparoscopic adrenalectomy was performed, but 2 months later a loco-regional recurrence with a port-site metastasis was diagnosed on the right side. Open adrenalectomy, by avoiding the potential for port-site metastasis, may be oncologically superior to laparoscopic adrenalectomy in this situation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St Josef-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. d.weyhe@elis-stiftung.de
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weyhe
authors.forename: Orlin
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Belyaev
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Skawran
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Karl-Heinz
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Bauer
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D000315:Adrenalectomy / Q000379:methods; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D012086:Reoperation