Our Surgical Experiences In Adrenal Masses:To Investigate Relationship Between Weight To Malignancy

In this study we evaluated for surgical intervention in patients surgically treated for adrenal masses and adrenal malignancy with the relationship between the mass. In this study,adrenal mass the data were retrospectively analyzed 55 patients who underwent between April 2000-January 2012 in Necmettin Erbakan University Konya Meram Medical Faculty, General Surgery Department. Patients gender, age, mass localization, surgical interventions, mass size, mass weight and pathological diagnosis were evaluated. All of 26 patients (47.2%) were male and 29 (52.8%) were female.In 24 cases (43.6%) on the right, 28 (50.9%) on the left and 3 (% 5.5) patients had bilateral adrenal mass was detected. 25 patients (45.4%) were operated laparoscopic and 26 patients (47.2%) underwent surgery with open transperitoneal venture. Pathological examination of the mass weight of the specimens extracted from 20 cases per measured 67.35gr (1.76-500), respectively.In this cases mean mass size was 5.6 cm. The evaluation of adrenal masses as size to weight of the mass may be helpful in the diagnosis. Recently theese masses can be treated successfully diagnostic methods with the development of laparoscopic surgery.