[Surgical treatment of adrenal gland metastases: results in a series of 35 patients].

Introduction: The objectives of this study are to present the results of adrenalectomies due to metastasis, and to analyse the prognostic factors that may help to predict long-term survival in this patient group.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 35 patients who underwent adrenalectomy for metastases in the Hospital de Cruces from 1996 to January 2010. The survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan and Meier method.

[Oesophageal endoscopic ultrasound in the accurate location of primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT)].

Aim: Our aim was to estimate the usefulness of oesophageal endoscopic ultrasound in the accurate location of recurrent or persistent primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT).

Material And Method: A total of 352 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism were operated on over the last seven years. A preoperative parathyroid 99Tc- sestamibi gammagraphy and an intraoperative PTH determination were performed routinely.

[Absence/disappearance of gallbladder in a patient diagnosed with cholelithiasis].

We report the case of a patient with preoperatively demonstrated cholecystitis due to cholelithiasis but with no presence of gallbladder at laparoscopy or on conversion to open surgery. Gallbladder ectopy was ruled out and the possibility of gallbladder agenesia was discussed. However, four preoperative ultrasound scans performed within a protocol of treatment with octreotide, in the setting of acute cholecystitis, ruled out this possibility.