This book will offer for the first time a step-by-step description of the posterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy, a minimally invasive technique, moving the gold standard of laparoscopic adrenalectomy towards the retroperitoneoscopic approach. Detailed information about the technique, the advantages over other approaches, the technical steps, the potential complications and how to solve them, outcomes, and robotics, will be offered to readers.
This practical guide will be of great interest for all general surgeons and urologists already performing adrenal surgery, and for those that wish to start performing adrenalectomy.
Carlos Eduardo Costa de Almeida graduated in Medicine by the University of Coimbra in 2004 and completed the General Surgery residency in 2012 at Centro Hospitalar de Coimbra, obtaining the best national classification. He worked at Centro Hospitalar e Universit?rio de Coimbra till 2020 and was an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Coimbra till 2021. Now he is a surgeon in Instituto Portugu?s de Oncologia de Coimbra, in Hospital CUF Coimbra and Hospital Luz Aveiro. He is a member the Administration Board of Portuguese Society of Surgery and member of the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons. He performs colorectal surgery, oncologic surgery, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, endocrine surgery, abdominal wall l“M
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