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Endocrine Surgery

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The Division of Endocrine Surgery aims to provide comprehensive clinical treatment approaches to a full range of diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, as well as endocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas. Our expertise includes treatment of the more common and benign disorders to relatively rare malignancies, including:

Thyroid disease:

• thyroid cancer
• papillary thyroid cancer
• follicular thyroid cancer
• Hürthle cell thyroid cancer
• anaplastic throid cancer
• lymphoma
• multinodular goiter
• Graves' disease and hyperthyroidism
• Hashimoto's disease and hypothyroidism

Parathyroid disease

• hyperparathyroidism
• parathyroid adenoma
• parathyroid hyperplasia
• parathyroid cancer

Adrenal disease

• aldosteronoma
• Cushing's disease
• pheochromocytoma
• adrenocotrical carcinoma

Carcinoid tumors and Endocrine Tumors of the Pancreas

• gastrinoma
• insulinoma
• VIPoma, somatostatinoma, and glucagonoma

Our endocrine surgeons understand that surgery for endocrine disease can be a source of anxiety and stress. Knowing as much as possible beforehand can help. We invite you to browse through the pages linked at the left for information about what to expect from your visit with our endocrine surgeons.

We also offer a comprehensive endocrine Health Library that gives full descriptions of a variety of endocrine diseases. Look through the pages linked at the right to learn more.