This book summarises for quick reference all need-to-know aspects of endocrine surgery procedures

Each chapter focuses on one endocrine disorder and briefly covers definition, incidence, presentation, investigations, medical management, indications for surgery, tips for surgery, complications and outcomes

Each chapter includes a 'pearls and pitfalls' box, providing extra tips for the trainee surgeon

1. Adrenal and Paraganglionoma: Presentation, Assessment and Diagnosis.- 2. Cushing's Disease and Syndrome.- 3. Management of Conn's Syndrome.- 4. Phaeochromocytoma and Paraganglioma.- 5. Adrenocortical Carcinoma and Open Adrenalectomy.- 6. Adrenal Metastasectomy.- 7. Minimally Invasive Adrenal Surgery.- 8. Diagnosis and Pre-Operative Assessment (Algorithms) for Pancreatic NETs.- 9. Localisation of Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal NETs.- 10. Surgery for Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (pNEN).- 11. Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumour (NET) Surgery.- 12. Assessment of Goitre.- 13. Surgery for Benign Thyroid Disease.- 14. Management of the Indeterminate Thyroid Nodule.- 15. Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- 16. Medullary Thyroid Cancer.- 17. Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer.- 18. Thyroidectomy Technique.- 19. Surgery for Thyrotoxicosis.- 20. Retrosternal Goitre.- 21. Lymph Node Surgery for Thyroid Cancer.- 22. Complications in Thyroid Surgery and How to Avoid Them.- 23. Revision Thyroid Surgery.- 24. Extended Surgery for Extra-Thyroidal Disease Invasion.- 25. Managing the Airway in Thyroid Surgery.- 26. Voice Change following Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery.- 27. Post-Operative Management of Thyroid Cancer.- 28. Recent Advances in Thyroid Surgery.- 29. Outcomes and Audit in Thyroid Surgery.- 30. Consent and Litigation in Thyroid Surgery.- 31. Assessment of Hyperparathyroidism.- 32. Parathyroidectomy: Indications for Surgery and Localisation.- 33. Surgery for Primary Hyperparathyroidism.- 34. Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy.- 35. Re-Operative Parathyroid Surgery.- 36. Renal Hyperparathyroidism.- 37. Presentation and Biochemical Assessment of Pituitary Disease.- 38. Localisation and Imaging of Pituitary Tumours.- 39. Diagnostic Work-Up and Non-Surgical Management of Pituitary Disease.- 40. Hypophysectomy.