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What does adrenalectomy mean?

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  1. (surgery) The removal of one or both adrenal glands, usually advised for patients with tumours in those glands.
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Dr. Capolicchio and his team have recently removed these glands going through the back in a procedure called anterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy.
To evaluate this hypothesis, adrenalectomy was performed at day 4 of pregnancy in pregnant rats.
Effects of surgical and pharmacological adrenalectomy on the initiation and maintenance of intravenous cocaine self-administration in rats.
The mini-invasive laparoscopic approach is currently the reference technique to perform a total or partial adrenalectomy in patients affected by pheochromocytoma.
At our institution, radical proximal gastrectomy, splenectomy, partial pancreatectomy, left adrenalectomy, and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection were performed.
In one study it was found that adrenalectomy performed in non-stress conditions increased plasma ACTH and corticosterone levels are reduced.

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