Lange Endocrine Surgery: Clinical Diagnosis and Management 1st Edition

Master the clinical diagnosis and management of endocrine diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal glands, and pancreas

Packed with 800+ photos and illustrations, including CT scans, MRIs, X-rays, and anatomic renderings, Lange Endocrine Surgery: Clinical Diagnosis and Management delivers high-yield descriptions of the latest diagnostic modalities and management protocols. Designed to foster quick recall of major diagnostic features, the book provides clear, concise presentation of etiology, pathogenesis, clinical findings, differential diagnosis, and medical and surgical treatment.

Perfect for board certification review, this comprehensive guide emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to all endocrine surgical conditions to help you determine the best options of care based on the standard of care. This also helps you utilize multidisciplinary expertise available at your institution. Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and pathology are discussed to the extent that they contribute to the ultimate purpose of the book.

Lange Endocrine Surgery: Clinical Diagnosis and Management is an unmatched source of information about everything you need to know to treat and manage patients safely and effectively.

CONTENTS

1. General Approach to Endocrine Surgical Patients

2. Ethics of Endocrine Surgery

3. Genetics of Endocrine Diseases

4. THYROID DISEASES:

1) Thyroid nodules and multinodular goiter

2) Graves’ Disease and toxic nodular goiter (Plummer’s Disease)

3) Thyroiditis (Hashimoto, De Quervain, Riedel)

4) Papillary thyroid carcinoma

5) Follicular thyroid carcinoma

6) Hurthle Cell carcinoma

7) Medullary thyroid carcinoma

8) Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, thyroid lymphoma and metastases

5. PARATHYROID

1) Primary hyperparathyroidism

2) Secondary hyperparathyroidism

3) Tertiary hyperparathyroidism

4) Parathyroid carcinoma

6. ADRENALS

1) Incidentaloma

2) Cushing’s Disease and syndrome

3) Primary hyperaldosteronism (Conn’s syndrome)

4) Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma

5) Adrenocortical carcinoma, adrenal lymphoma, metastases to adrenal gland

7. PANCREAS

1) Non-functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NET)

2) Functional pancreatic NET: Insulinoma

3) Functional pancreatic NET: Gastrinoma

4) Functional pancreatic tumors: Somatostatinoma, VIPoma, PPoma

8. NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS (NET) of the THYMUS and GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

1) Thymic NET

2) NET of the Stomach

3) Small intestine NET

4) Large intestine NET

9. PITUITARY

10. FAMILIAL ENDOCRINE SYNDROMES

1) Familial Non-Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Syndrome (FNMTC)

2) Familial syndromes associated with thyroid cancer (FAP, Gardner’s Syndrome,Cowden’s Syndrome or PTEN-Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome, Werner’s Syndrome, Carney’sComplex, Papillary Renal Neoplasia, McCune-Albright Syndrome, Turcot’sSyndrome)

3) Familial primary hyperparathyroidism

4) Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia (FHH)

5) Parathyroid carcinoma Jaw-Tumor Syndrome

6) Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1)

7) Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2 A and 2B)

8) Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 4

9) Familial endocrine syndromes associated with adrenal tumors (Recklinghausen disease, von Hippel Lindau syndrome, Pheochromocytoma-Paraganglioma Syndrome)

11. ENDOCRINE EMERGENCIES