| Journal: | Revista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000283607 |
| ISSN: | 0100-6991 |
| Authors: | Marques, Ruy Garcia1 Sanjuliani, Antonio Felipe |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Season: | Nov-Dic |
| Volumen: | 33 |
| Number: | 6 |
| Pages: | 401-410 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Revisión bibliográfica |
| Approach: | Descriptivo |
| English abstract | Among the main etiologies of secondary arterial hypertension figure out the tumorous affections of adrenal gland, located on cortex – primary aldosteronism (Conn's syndrome) and Cushing's syndrome – or at glandular medulla – pheocromocytoma. Although these tumors are at most benign the surgical resection is needed in order to eliminate the disturbances provided by them and to limit the mass growth, being curative in about 80-90% of the cases. In this paper some particularities above surgical treatment of these diseases will be focused emphasizing the pre-operative prepare of the patients and the currently preconized approach |
| Disciplines: | Medicina |
| Keyword: | Cirugía, Endocrinología, Suprarrenales, Hipertensión arterial, Etiología, Adrenalectomía, Tumores, Feocromocitoma, Aldosteronismo primario, Síndrome de Cushing |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Endocrinology, Surgery, Etiology, Arterial hypertension, Adrenal glands, Adrenalectomy, Tumors, Pheochromocytoma, Primary aldosteronism, Cushing syndrome |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver HTML) |
