Table 4.

Operative and postoperative data

	Laparoscopic	Open	P-
	surgery	surgery	value
	N = 7	N = 9
Tumor size (histology), (cm)	6 (3–11)	6 (2,7–8)	ns
Operative time (min)
1. Adrenalectomy (all procedures)	110 (90–165)	125 (105–195)	ns
Left side	125 (90–165)	125 (110–135)	ns
Right side	90	155 (105–195)	ns
2. Paraganglioma	235	210	-
Converted procedures	0	-
Blood loss (ml)	200 (50–400)	300 (100–400)	ns
Patients requiring blood transfusions	0	0	-
Peroperative complications	0	0	-
Postoperative hospital stay	3 (2–4)	6 (5–15)	0.001
Postoperative complications	0	3*	ns
Patients requiring opoids	1	9	0.001

^* 1 – pneumonia; 1 – bowel paralysis; – pain, damage to the ileoinguinal nerve Values expressed as median (range) ns – not significant.