Outpatient services
Venue- Surgery OPD, 310 Area 3rd Floor, OPD building, CMC Hospital Campus
Outpatient days - Wednesday and Saturday / From 8 am onwards.
The department specialises in providing services to patients suffering from thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, endocrine pancreatic diseases, neuroendocrine tumours and breast diseases.
Endocrine surgery - Radiotherapy – Medical Oncology – Palliative care multidisciplinary team meeting on Mondays 2 pm. Venue – RT OPD Area (G1)
Endocrine Surgery – Nuclear Medicine – Endinocrinology multidisciplinary team meeting on Wednesdays 3.30 pm, Venue – Nuclear Medicine department, 1st floor (Next to B ward), Main building.
The department works closely with the Departments of Endocrinology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy and Medical Oncology and decisions for comprehensive care are made in multi-disciplinary team meetings held every week.
Patient Information
Thyroid diseases
- Benign goitre
- Malignant goitre
- Well differentiated thyroid cancers (Eg., Papillary / Follicular)
- Medullary thyroid cancer including Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type II
- Anaplastic thyroid cancer
- Lymphoma Thyroid
- Toxic nodular goitre
- Graves disease
- Retrosternal goitre
- Thyroiditis
- Embryological abnormalities of the thyroid gland
Facilities available
- Surgical treatment including prophylactic thyroidectomy
- Radioactive iodine therapy
- External beam radiotherapy
- Medical Oncology related therapies including tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
- Gene mutation analysis
Parathyroid disease
- Parathyroid adenoma
- Parathyroid carcinoma
- Parathyroid hyperplasia
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type I
Facilities available
- Surgical treatment (focussed parathyroidectomy / four gland exploration)
- Localisation studies including Sestamibi scan, SPECT imaging and Ultrasound
Adrenal disorders
- Pheochromocytoma
- Conn’s syndrome
- Cushing’s syndrome
- Adrenal Incidentaloma
- Adrenal myelolipoma
- Adrenocortical carcinoma
- Metastases
- Granulomatous adrenal lesions
- Lymphomas
- Bilateral adrenal hyperplasia
Facilities available
- Laparoscopic adrenelectomy both anterior and posterior
- Open adrenelectomy
- Redo adrenal surgery
- Mitotane therapy for adrenocortical cancer
The work up of these conditions is challenging, and is done by closely working with our medical colleagues.
Neuroendocrine Pancreatic tumours
- Insulinoma
- Gastrinoma
- VIPomas
- Non functioning pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
- Other rare variants.
Facilities available
- Laparoscopic resection
- Open enucleation or resections
- Intraoperative ultrasound
- Frozen section analysis
Breast diseases
- Benign breast diseases (BBD)
- cyclical premenstrual mastalgias
- non cyclical mastalgia
- fibroadenomas
- granulomatous breast lesions
- breast abscess
- duct ectasia
- Phyllodes tumour
- Paget’s disease
- Breast cancer
Facilities available
- Breast self examination education
- Breast awareness and Breast Nurse education
- Multi-disciplinary team approach for individualised patient care
- Breast conservation surgery
- Sentinel node biopsy
- Modified radical mastectomy with or without reconstruction
- Extended chest wall resection