McGraw-Hill Manual Endocrine Surgery

OVERVIEW

A step-by-step guide to the diagnosis and management of the endocrine surgery patient

"The authors have clearly succeeded in synthesizing a very practical and reader-friendly manual of 21st-century endocrine surgery. This will be a valuable resource for medical students, surgical residents, fellows, and consulting surgeons alike."--Geoffrey B. Thompson, MD, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic (from the foreword)

McGraw-Hill Manual Endocrine Surgery delivers the information you need for the full-range of endocrine surgery, presented in at-a-glance bulleted lists and tables. Concise, well-illustrated chapters provide high-yield summaries of epidemiology, risk factors, genetics, clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation, management, surveillance and follow-up. You'll also find numerous practical pearls that offer valuable insights from experienced surgeons.

This unique, point-of-care book features:

• Succinct, yet comprehensive coverage of the diseases and conditions that affect the thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, and adrenal glands
• High-yield information on the management of specific endocrine conditions
• Management algorithms within each chapter to speed the decision-making process
• A two-color design with tabbed pages to facilitate on-the-spot look-up
• Content valuable to surgeons, surgical residents, fellows, and faculty

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Section I: Thyroid
1. Thyroid Nodule
2. Goiter
3. Hyperthyroidism
4. Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
5. Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma and Oncocytic (Hurthle Cell) Carcinoma
6. Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
7. Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma, Metastases to the Thyroid Gland, and Thyroid Lymphoma

Section II: Parathyroid
8. Primary Hyperparathyroidism
9. Persistent and Recurrent Hyperparathyroidism
10. Secondary and Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism
11. Parathyroid Carcinoma

Section III: Adrenal
12. Incidentalomas and Metastases to the Adrenal Gland
13. Hyperaldosteronism
14. Hypercortisolism
15. Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma
16. Adrenocortical Carcinoma

Section IV: Gastrointestinal
17. Insulinoma
18. Gastrinoma
19. Carcinoid Tumors
20. Other Functional and Nonfunctional Neuroendocrine Tumors

Section V: Familial Endocrine Syndromes
21. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1
22. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2
23. von Hippel-Lindau Disease
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Shane Y. Morita, MD
The Queen's Medical Center
University of Hawaii
John A. Burns School of Medicine
Honolulu, HI
The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Alan P. B. Dackiw, MD, PhD
The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Martha A. Zeiger, MD
The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD