Endocrine surgery involves commonly the surgical treatment of thyroid gland, the parathyroid glands, and the adrenal glands.
The thyroid gland pathology that is treated by surgery can involve:
-Solitary symptomatic nodules of the thyroid gland, over 4 cm in size
-Active thyroid nodules
-Tumors of the thyroid gland
-Nodular goiter
The parathyroid gland pathology that is treated by surgery can involve:
– Tumors of the parathyroid gland, (adenoma, carcinoma)
The adrenal gland pathology that is treated by surgery can involve:
-Functional adrenal tumors
-Malignancy suspicion or malignant tumor
-Pheochromocytoma
-Non-functional tumors with malignancy risk
-Metastatic tumors
You can check the aspects of endocrine surgeries in this section.