Single-Port Retroperitoneal Robotic Treatment for Adrenal Angiomyolipoma: Description and Review of the Literature - Abstract
Angiomyolipomas (AMLs) are benign tumours of mesenchymal origin that derivate from perivascular epithelioid cells and are most commonly found in the kidney, with a strong association to disorders like Tuberous Sclerosis and lymphangioleiomyomatosis but there are several extra-renal locations where AMLs can arise, the most common being the liver, followed by the spleen, bone and lungs being the adrenal one of the rarest locations where they can appear. Concerning adrenal AMLs, only 21 cases have been described in the English literature so far, most of them using an open approach. Sizes reported range between 0.2 and 17.3 cm. We present a review of the literature and the presentation of the first adrenal AML treated by a robotic retroperitoneal approach via-single port being this a feasible and good approach to treat this kind of lesions despite de size with great cosmetic and algetic outcome.