Endocrine Surgery

Minimally Invasive Endocrine Surgery

Since the first report of endoscopic subtotal parathyroidectomy in 1996, a variety of endoscopic surgical approaches has been reported. These endoscopic approaches include the minimally-invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT), the endoscopic lateral approach, the lateral mini-incision approach, the anterior/chest (hybrid) approach, the transaxillary approach, the axillobreast approach, th...

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The history of endocrine surgery

However, considering that Elizabeth Garrett qualified in medicine in 1865 and the University of London opened its doors to women in 1878, it is surprising how few women had taken up physiology by 1914. Only Winifred Cullis at the London School of Medicine for Women had achieved the status of head of a department by that time. The author has selected his subjects on the ground that they were eit...

The Surgery of the Endocrine System

Metastatic cancer may be treated either by excision of endocrine glands (surgical deprivation) or administration of hormones (addition therapy). This article deals only with deprivation. Addition will only be considered as it directly affects deprivation and not as a method of therapy in its own right. The purpose of surgical deprivation is to terminate the production of the specific hormones e...

Cardiac bypass surgery with haemorrhagic endocrine sequelae.

Cardiac bypass surgery is associated with changes in haemostatis which can lead to bleeding. This report highlights two examples of such bleeding which led to unusual clinical presentations and endocrinological consequences: adrenal and pituitary haemorrhage.