ADRENAL SURGERY

Abstract

In adrenal surgery, of note are increase of the incidence of incidentaloma because of a rapid advance of various image diagnostic procedures, change of the approach of choice due to the more accurate preoperative localization of the adrenal lesions, and the treatment of bilateral lesions. Additionally, the treatments of adrenocortical carcinoma and malignant pheochromocytoma and the method of cortisol withdrawal in Cushing's syndrome were reviewed and discussed. It is important for urologists to perform adrenal surgery appropriately by preoperatively elucidating the full picture of adrenal disorder.