Our initial experience: Laparoscopic adrenalectomy

Objective: to evaluate our experience of laparoscopic adrenalectomies at the surgical unit ii,services hospital,lahore over a period of eighteen months. design: a prospective case series study. setting: the services hospital,lahore. methods: eleven patients operated from june 2011 to december 2012. main outcome measures: clinical presentation,age and sex demographics,average hospital stay,intraoperative and postoperative complications and outcome. results: eight of the patients were male whereas three were female. nine underwent left sided adrenalectomy and two right sided adrenalectomy were carried out. conclusion: the results obtained in our experience were comparable to those reported in the international literature,confirming the reproducibility and feasibility of this type of surgical procedure in our national setup.