Robot assisted laparoscopic adrenalectomy: Should this be the new standard?

Journal: Urologia
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Minimal invasive surgeries (MIS) for large size adrenal tumors are still debatable. The objective is to evaluate the contemporary peri- and post-operative outcomes of patients undergoing (open = OA, laparoscopic = LA, and robotic = RA) adrenalectomies in three institutions.

Authors

  • Nivash Selvaraj
    Department of Urology, Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai, India.
  • Ginil Kumar Pooleri
    Department of Urology, Amrita Institute of Medical Science, Kochi, India.
  • Sanjai Kumar Addla
    Department of Urooncology, Apollo Cancer Institutes, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, India.
  • Deepak Raghavan
    Department of Urology, Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai, India.
  • Thirumalai Ganesan Govindaswamy
    Department of Urology, Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai, India.
  • Arun Kumar Balakrishnan
    Department of Urology, Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai, India.
  • Ananthakrishnan Sivaraman
    Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India.
  • Nitesh Jain
    Department of Urology, Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai, India.
  • Shreedhar Gurunathan Kandasamy
    Department of Urology, Amrita Institute of Medical Science, Kochi, India.
  • Narasimhan Ragavan
    Department of Urology, Apollo Main Hospitals, Chennai, India.