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Endocrine Lecture Notes
18.36mb doc, Byrd
Supplemental:
Thyroid Neoplasms
1.92 mb ppt, Byrd
Parathyroid Surgery
11.27mb ppt, Byrd
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Lectures › Endocrine
Endocrine/Melanoma
Thyroid:
- physical exam/differential diagnosis, workup of a thyroid mass
- thyroid carcinoma - risk factors, papillary, follicular, mixed, medullary, anaplastic, prognosis, treatment with I131
- surgery - anatomy, extent of resection, complications
Parathyroid:
- hypercalcemia - differential diagnosis, emergent treatment
- hyperparathyroidism - workup, primary, secondary, tertiary
- surgical management of primary hyperparathyroidism vs hyperplasia
Adrenal:
- adrenal mass - differential diagnosis, workup (x-ray, laboratory)
- pheochromocytoma - laboratory findings, preoperative blockade,
- hypertensive crisis, MEN II
- Cushing's syndrome, Cushing's disease, laboratory distinction of cause
- adrenocortical carcinoma - diagnosis, prognosis
MEN syndromes - MEN I, MEN II - diagnosis, role and sequence of surgery in each
Melanoma:
- pigmented skin lesion - differential diagnosis, method of biopsy
- subtypes - superficial spreading, nodular, acral lentiginous, lentigo maligna melanoma
- Clark levels, Breslow thickness
- prognostic factors - thickness, location (BANS distribution) ulceration, sex
- treatment - margins, role of elective and therapeutic lymph node dissection
Will NOT be discussed/Outside reading recommended:
- Thyroid: physiology/thyroid suppression, benign conditions eg: Grave's disease, Hashimoto's, multinodular goiter
- Parathyroid: hypoparathyroidism - differential diagnosis/treatment
- Adrenal: adrenal insufficiency - diagnosis, etiology, treatment; primary hyperaldosteronism - symptoms, laboratory findings; virilizing adrenal tumors