Tag: Endocrine surgery

Surgery for pheochromocytoma: A 20-year experience of a single institution

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Chrysanthi Aggeli, Alexander M. Nixon, Christos Parianos, Georgios Vletsis, Labrini Papanastasiou, Athina Markou, Theodora Kounadi, Georgrios Piaditis, Georgios N. Zografos

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OBJECTIVE: Resection of pheochromocytomas is a challenging procedure due to hemodynamic lability. Our aim was to evaluate surgical outcomes in 67 patients with pheochromocytoma and to validate the role of laparoscopic surgery in the treatment of these tumors. DESIGN: This study is a retrospective review. A total of 68 procedures for pheochromocytoma …

Landmarks in the history of adrenal surgery

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Marios Papadakis, Andreas Manios, Georgios Schoretsanitis, Constantinos Trompoukis

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The last 100 years have seen a revolution in the understanding of adrenal disease and its surgical treatment. The isolation of its hormones, the detailed study of the adrenal medulla and the cortex together with the enormous expansion of surgical methods served as catalysts to this revolution. The Greek word for adrenal (epinephridio, from the Greek epi, upon, and nephros, kidney) dates back to the age of Homer who mentions the adrenal glands …