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. 2021 Sep 24;55(3):286–293. doi: 10.14744/SEMB.2021.64920

Table 5.

Surgical indications, surgical volume and the rate of adrenocortical cancer in adrenal surgery in 2019 and 2020

Surgical indication Period I 2019/2020 n (%) Period II 2019/2020 n (%) Period III 2019/2020 n (%) Period IV 2019/2020 n (%) Total 2019/2020 n (%)
Functional adrenal tumor 6/ (40)/2 (22) 5 (33)/1 (11) 4 (26)/4 (45) 0 (0)/2 (22) 15 (75)/9 (75) p=1
Adrenal mass (SM)* 0 (0)/1 (50) 3 (75)/0 (0) 1 (25)/1 (50) -/- 4 (20)/2 (17) p=0.8
Adrenal metastasis -/- -/- 1 (100)/1 (100) -/- 1 (5)/1 (8) p=0.7
Total adrenal surgery 6 (30)/3 (25) p=0.7 8 (40)/1 (8) p=0.05 6 (30)/6 (50) p=0.2 0 (0)/2 (17) p=0.06 20/12
Histopathology: ACC** 0/1 1/0 1/0 -/- 2 (10)/1 (8.3) p=0.8
*

SM: suspicious for malignancy;

**

ACC: Adrenocortical cancer.