Table 3.

Summary of series of laparoscopic adrenalectomies for adrenal malignancies.

Author	Total number of LA	Total number of malignant cases	Mean tumor size (cm)	Duration of followup (months)	Recurrence rate	Comments
Henry et al., 2002 [24]	233	6 ACC	7.4	47	17%	1 dead of disease
Porpiglia et al., 2004 [25]	205	6 ACC	6.9	30	0%	1 dead of cerebrovascular accident
Corcione et al., 2005 [26]	100	2 ACC	8.5	13.6	50%	Both patients alive, one has still disease
Gonzalez et al., 2005  [19]	6	6 ACC	5.3	28	100%	2 are still alive with disease, remaining 4 died of disease
Palazzo et al., 2006 [27]	391	3 MP	6.8	34	33%	1 dead of disease
Lombardi et al., 2006 [28]	79	4 ACC 3 MP	5.9	23	29%	4 alive disease free, 2 alive with disease and one dead of liver failure
Liao et al., 2006 [29]	210	4 ACC	6.2	39	25%	1 alive disease free, 1 alive with disease and 2 died of disease
Nocca et al., 2007 [30]	131	4 ACC	8.5	34	25%	3 alive disease free, 1 died of metastatic disease
Ramacciato et al., 2008 [31]	18	2 ACC	8.3	44	0%	Alive and disease free
Brix et al., 2010 [32]	35	35 ACC	6.2	39	77%	37% of patients died from ACC
Miller et al., 2010 [33]	17	17	7.0	36	20%	Not investigated, but authors concluded that the mean time to local recurrence was shorter in LA compared to the open group

ACC: adrenocortical cancer; MP: malignant pheochromocytoma; LA: laparoscopic adrenalectomy.