Surgical endocrinology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Doherty, Gerard M., Skogseid, Britt
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2001]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Sect. 1. General concepts
  • Diagnostic testing and clinical decision making
  • Endocrine tumor biology: an overview of tumorigenesis
  • Sect. 2. Thyroid
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Endemic goiter and benign multinodular goiter
  • Diagnostic approach to the thyroid nodule
  • Papillary thyroid cancer
  • Follicular thyroid carcinoma
  • Postoperative management of differentiated thyroid carcinoma
  • Sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma
  • Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, thyroid metastases, and lymphoma
  • Sect. 3. Parathyroid
  • Diagnosis, natural history, and intervention in sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism
  • Operative strategies in primary hyperparathyroidism
  • Surgery for persistent and recurrent primary hyperparathyroidism
  • Parathyroid carcinoma
  • Secondary hyperparathyroidism and renal osteodystrophy
  • Sect. 4. Adrenal
  • Incidental adrenal masses
  • Conn's syndrome: surgical primary hyperaldosteronism
  • Cushing's syndrome: hypercortisolism
  • Pheochromocytoma
  • Adrenocortical carcinoma
  • Operative strategies for adrenalectomy
  • Sect. 5. Pancreas and carcinoid tumors
  • Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
  • Insulinoma
  • Nonfunctional pancreatic islet cell tumors
  • VIPoma, glucagonoma, and other rare islet cell tumors
  • Surgery for endocrine tumors of the pancreas
  • Systemic therapy for neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas
  • Carcinoid and flushing syndromes
  • Lung and thymic neuroendocrine tumors
  • Gastric carcinoid tumors
  • Midgut and hindgut carcinoid tumors
  • Systemic therapy for metastatic or residual extrapancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
  • Sect. 6. Familial endocrinopathies
  • Genetic abnormalities in multiple endocrine neoplasia type I
  • Management of hyperparathyroidism in multiple endocrine neoplasia type I
  • Pancreatic endocrine tumors in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
  • Pituitary and less common abnormalities in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
  • Genetic abnormalities in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2
  • Medullary thyroid carcinoma and the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 syndromes
  • Pheochromocytoma and hyperparathyroidism in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2
  • Familial hyperparathyroidism and familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • von Hippel-Lindau disease and von Recklinghausen's disease.