[Laparoscopic approach in the treatment of malignant adrenal tumours].

Background: Malignant primary or secondary adrenal tumours are uncommon. For most of them early surgery with adrenalectomy is the only means of cure. Although controversy exists on this issue, the increasing experience in laparoscopic surgery extends the indication for laparoscopic adrenalectomy to potentially malignant and to metastatic adrenal tumours.

[Laparoscopic treatment of common bile duct lithiasis associated with gallbladder lithiasis].

Introduction: Laparoscopic bile duct exploration has become one of the main options for the treatment of choledocholithiasis associated with cholelithiasis. Our objective is to describe the results of a consecutive series of patients.

Patients And Method: We retrospectively analyzed 101 (66 female/16 male) patients who underwent laparoscopic bile duct exploration.