Hi everyone, I hope everyone is doing well or at least managing. For those of you who may have lost loved fuzzies (or not so fuzzzies) recently, my heart and soul goes out to you. I am writing tonight to ask about your combined experiences with bilateral adrenalectomies (bc: before cyrosurgery..hehe). Until the advent of Dr. Weiss's new technique, the theory had been that despite removal of what appeared to be 'all' the right adrenal gland in a bilateral adrenalectomy, some tissue must have remained which explained why less than 5% of ferrets required post-op hormone supplementation. If it is true that some tissue is left from that techique it stands to reason also that recurrences would occur at the right adrenal. I understand they do. In cases where surgeons think they removed all of the right adrenal, how many have right adrenal recurrences? How many of those are metastatic? or otherwise complicated (eg: involve the vena cava via impingement, etc.). Given bilaterals are not frequent events, I'm curious as to your experiences. Michaela Maurice College of Veterinary Medicine Ohio State University Class of 2002 [Posted in FML issue 2859]