Baystate endocrine surgeons perform different procedures on thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal and pancreatic glands for variety of conditions:
- Partial (thyroid lobectomy) and total thyroidectomy for:
- Thyroid cancer,
- Benign thyroid nodules and goiter,
- Graves disease and toxic/ “hot” nodules,
- Neck dissections (removal of lymph nodes) for thyroid cancer metastasis.
- Parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism, including minimally invasive parathyroidectomy with parathyroid hormone monitoring, office ultrasound for parathyroid tumor localization.
- Adrenalectomy, including minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic adrenalectomy) for adrenal tumors:
- Pheochromocytoma
- Aldosteronomas
- Adrenal tumors resulting in Cushing’s syndrome
- Nonfunctional adenomas (benign tumors)
- Adrenal cancer
- Surgery for neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas:
- Insulinoma
- Gastrinoma
- Other rare tumors of the pancreas
