Retroperitoneal adipose tissue samples
adrenal tumours, tumour
ADRENAL TUMOURS, TUMOUR
Retroperitoneal adipose tissue samples from the tumour bank at the Department of Internal Medicine IV at LMU Munich were analysed. Samples from 30 patients who had surgery for benign adrenal tumours were obtained. After removal of the tumour, the samples were put on ice and adjacent fat was removed and frozen in liquid nitrogen. The Ethical Review Board of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University (Munich, Germany, approval number: 379-10) approved of the study, which was part of the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours registry and biobank initiative (