Table 1: 1-Literature Review on PubMed with keywords 'laparoscopic', 'cortical sparing', synchronous / simultaneous' and 'bilateral adrenalectomy' from year 1996 to 2020.

Primary Author

Indication

Patients that underwent Laparoscopic Cortical-Sparing Simultaneous Bilateral Adrenalectomy

Complications

Steroid independence

Adrenal beds that underwent Cortical-Sparing adrenalectomy

Recurrence of primary disease

Year

Hartmut P. H. Neumann

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

4

8

0

4 of 4 (100%)

0

1999

William B. Inabnet

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

5

10

0

not reported

3 (30%)

2000

Michael Brauckhoff

1)Bilateral pheochromocytoma

2)Bilateral adrenocortical hyperplasia

2

16

0

1 of 2 (50%)

0

2003

Linwah Yip

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

26

30

0

17 of 26 (65%)

3 (10%)

2004

Eric K. Diner

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

10

43

0

not reported

2

2005

Raffaele Pugliese

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

1

2

0

1 of 1 (100%)

0

2008

Y. K. Ku

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

1

2

0

1 of 1 (100%)

0

2010

Pier Francesco Alesina

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

32

89

1x: Bleeding requiring reoperation
1x: Cerebral stroke

30 of 32 (94%)

0

2011

K. V. S. Hari Kumar

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

1

2

0

1 of 1 (100%)

0

2011

Elizabeth G Grubbs

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

39

55

1x: Acute adrenal insufficiency

21 of 27 (78%)

4 (7%)

2013

Fouad Aoun

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

1

2

0

1 of 1 (100%)

o

2014

Benjamin R. Biteman

Bilateral pheochromocytoma

1

2

0

1 of 1 (100%)

0

2016

R Morimoto

Bilateral aldosterone-producing adenoma

1

2

0

1 of 1 (100%)

0

2016

Total

 

124

263

3

81%
(79 of 97)

4.6%
(12 of 263)