Textbook of Endocrine Surgery

1 Thyroid Physiology 2 Surgical Anatomy & Embryology of the Thyroid & Parathyroid Glands & Recurrent & External Laryngeal Nerves 3 Medical & Surgical Treatment of Endemic Goiter 4 Management of Benign Nonendemic Goiter 5 Thyroiditis: Acute, Subacute, Hashimoto's & Riedel's 6 Hypothyroidism 7 Hyperthyriodism: Graves' Disease & Toxic Nodular Goiter 8 Use & Abuse of Thyroid-stimulating Hormone Suppressive Therapy in Patients w/ Nodular Goiter & Benign or Malignant Thyroid Neoplasms 9 Approach to Thryoid Nodules 10 Childhood Thryoid Carcinoma 11 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Rationale for Hemithyroidectomy & Regional Node Dissection 12 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Rationale for Total Thyroidectomy 13 Follicular Neoplasms of the Thyroid 14 Hurthle Cell Adenoma & Carcinoma 15 Medullary Thyroid Cancer 16 Localization Tests in Patients w/ Thyroid Cancer 17 Papillary & Follicular Carcinoma: Surgical & Radioiodine Treatment of Distant Metastases 18 Anaplastic Carcinoma of the Thyroid Gland 19 Unusual Thryoid Cancer, Lymphoma & Metastase to the Thyroid 20 Recurrent Thyroid Cancer 21 Thyroidectomy 22 Management of Regional Lymph Nodes in Papillary, Follicular, & Medullary Thyroid Cancers 23 Complications of Thyroid Surgery 24 Thyroid Emergencies: Thyroid storm & Myxedema Coma 25 Histologic & Cytologic Characteristics of Thyroid Cancers 26 Factors That Predispose to Thyroid Neoplasia 27 Predictors of Thyroid Tumor Aggressiveness 28 Growth Factor, Thyroid Hyperplasia & Neoplasia 29 Signal Transduction in Thyroid Neoplasms 30 Oncogenes in Thyroid Tumors 31 Thyroid Oncogenesis 32 Cellular Properties Associated with Invasion in Normal & Malignant Endocrine Tumor Cells 33 Surgical Management of Recurrent & Intrathoracic Goiters 34 Surgical Techniques 35 Potentially New Therapies in Thyroid Cancer 36 CGH & LOH Changes in Thyroid Neoplasms 37 Sodium Iodide 38 Parathyroid Embryology, Anatomy, & Pathology 39 Parathyroid Hormone: Regulation of Secretion & Laboratory Determination 40 Diagnosis of Primary Hyperparathyrodism 41 Natural History of Untreated Primary Hyperparathyroidism 42 Metabolic Complications of Primary Hyperparathyroidism 43 Natural History of Treated Primary Hyperparathyroidism 44 Asymptomatic Hyperparathyroidism 45 Normocalcemic Hyperparathyroidism 46 Localization Studies in Patients with Persistent or Recurrent Hyperthyroidism 47 Technique of Parathyroidectomy 48 Surgical Approach to Primary Hyperparathyroidism (Bilateral Approach) 49 Surgical Approach to Primary Hyperparathyroidism (Unilateral Approach) 50 Minimally Invasive Surgery 51 Endoscopic Parathyroidectomy 52 PTH Testing 53 Parathyroid Hyperplasia Parathyroidectomy 54 Familial Hyperparathyroidism in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes 55 Familial Hyperparathyroidism 56 Metabolic Complication for Patients with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism 57 Surgical Approac to Secondary Hyperparathyroidism 58 Parathyroid Reoperations 59 Hyperparathyroidism, Pseudohypoparathyroidism & Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism 60 Cryopreservation of Parathyroid Tissue 61 Hypercalcemia of Malignancy & Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein 62 Hypercalcemia Crisis 63 Parathyroid Carcinoma 64 Surgical Embryology & Anatomy of the Adrenal Glands 65 Adrenal Physiology 66 Adrenal Imaging Procedures 67 Adrenaloma (Incidentaloma) 68 Hyperaldosteronism 69 Adrenocortical Carcinoma: Nonfunctioning & Functioning 70 Cushing's Syndrome 71 Pheochromocytoma 72 Addison's Disease & Acute Adrenal Hemorrhage 73 Operative Approaches to the Adrenal Gland 74 Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy 75 Anatomy & Embryology of the Pancreas 76 Multiple Endorine Neoplasia Type 1 77 Transplantation of Endocrine Tissues 78 Pancreatic Endocrine Physiology 79 Insulinomas 80 Localization of Endocrine Pancreatic Tumors 81 Pancreatic Surgery for Endocrine Tumors 82 Gastrinoma 83 Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2B 84 Somatostatinoma & Rare Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors 85 Non-Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Endocrine Syndromes 86 Carcinoid Tumors 87 Endocrine Emergencies: Hypoglycemic & Hyperglycemic Crises 88 New Technology & Endocrine Surgery 89 Chemotherapy for Unresectable Endocrine Neoplasms