Advances in Endocrine Surgery

Abstract

Recent changes in the landscape of endocrine surgery include a shift from total thyroidectomy for almost all patients with papillary thyroid cancer to the incorporation of thyroid lobectomy for well-selected patients with low-risk disease; minimally invasive parathyroidectomy with, and potentially without, intraoperative parathyroid hormone monitoring for patients with well-localized primary hyperparathyroidism; improvement in the management of parathyroid cancer with the incorporation of immune checkpoint blockade and/or targeted therapies; and the incorporation of minimally invasive techniques in the management of patients with benign tumors and selected secondary malignancies of the adrenal gland.

Keywords: Adrenocortical carcinoma; Cushing’s syndrome; Hyperparathyroidism; Lymph node dissection; Papillary thyroid cancer; Parathyroid carcinoma; Pheochromocytoma; Thyroid lobectomy.