3D Laparoscopic Adrenalectomies for Adrenal Tumors

Adrenal Tumor Clinical Trial

Official title: Three-dimensional Laparoscopic Adrenalectomies for Benign and Malignant Adrenal Tumors

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The main drawbacks of conventional 2D laparoscopy are limited depth perception and loss of spatial orientation. High-quality 3D laparoscopy systems might improve surgical outcomes for adrenalectomy.

Clinical Trial Description

Over recent decades, technological advances such as improved video imaging (high-definition cameras), better instrumentation for dissection and hemostasis, articulating staplers, and optimized operating room lighting have added safety, efficacy, and precision to minimally invasive procedures. However, until recently, laparoscopy required surgeons to operate in a three-dimensional (3D) space with only two-dimensional (2D) images to guide their movements, resulting in a lack of depth perception and loss of spatial orientation that increased the risk of errors, fatigue, operative time, and operating room stress and made the technique difficult to learn.

High-quality 3D laparoscopy was developed as an alternative to conventional 2D laparoscopy. Several clinical trials and observational studies have compared surgical outcomes between 2D and 3D laparoscopic systems; however, few clinical studies have examined the usefulness of 3D laparoscopy systems for adrenalectomies. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adrenal Gland Neoplasms
• Adrenal Tumor
• Adrenalectomy; Status

• NCT number: NCT04905706
• Study type: Observational
• Source: Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona Dr. Josep Trueta
• Contact: José Ignacio Rodríguez-Hermosa, MD, PhD
• Phone: +34 972 94 02 56
• Email: jirodriguez.girona.ics@gencat.cat
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: January 1, 2013
• Completion date: December 31, 2033