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FERNANDEZ SANTIESTEBAN, Llipsy Teresa; PEREZ GARCIA, Kymani  e  CAUICH, Enrique. Video-assisted right adrenalectomy for sigmoid adenocarcinoma metastasis. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2018, vol.57, n.3 ISSN 1561-2945.

The adrenal glands are frequent sites of disease and present some type of alteration in 9 % of the population. Its detection has increased significantly with the increasingly frequent use of CT and MRI, in which many of these lesions are detected incidentally. The most common lesions are adenoma and metastasis; Adenoma is the most frequent disease in patients without a neoplastic history. In addition, pheochromocytomas, carcinomas, lymphomas, myelolipomas, cysts and pseudocysts, hemangiomas and hematomas can be found. To show the result of the surgical treatment of a metastasis in the right adrenal gland of a sigmoid adenocarcinoma. A review of the literature, indications and techniques in the treatment of metastases in the adrenal gland was performed and the results of a patient diagnosed and operated at Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical Surgical Hospital in 2016 are presented. Metastatic dissemination of adenocarcinoma of the colon to the adrenal glands is infrequent, rarely reported worldwide. A video-assisted adrenalectomy technique wasperformed with satisfactory results. There were no complications related to the procedure.

Palavras-chave : adrenalectomy; lacaparoscopy; metastasis.

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