J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 93(9): 887-890, 1992

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Report on the annual meeting

RECENT PROGRESS IN ENDOCRINE SUREGRY: MORE REFINED AND RATIONAL INTERVENTIONS FOR VARIED ENDOCRINE DISEASES

Better understanding of pathogenesis and natural history of various endocrine diseases along with development of new and sensitive assays for accurate measurement of hormones and of modern image diagnostic procedures for clear demonstration of pathological tissues has enabled us to detect many kinds of endocrine diseases much more frequently than before and to perform a more refined and rational surgical intervention. Endocrine surgery is now a challenging and facinating field of general surgery. This fact is best exemplified as follows : (1) different therapeutic approaches for intrathyroidal and extrathyroidal papillary carcinomas of the thyroid, (2) early detection and ¹³¹I treatment of clinically occult hematogenous metastasis of follicular carcinoma of the thyroid, (3) clinical usefulness of the serum calcitonin and CEA concentrations as sensitive tumor markers in the treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma, (4) rational use of preoperative localization test and unilateral neck exploration for parathyroid adenoma, and specific surgical intervention for metastatic parathyroid carcinoma, (5) how to treat adrenal incidentalomas and a trial of subclassification of pheochromocytomas into epinephrine- and norepinephrine-secreting tumors, and (6) intraoperative localization of insulinoma by ultrasound and newly developed surgical approaches for gestrinoma.

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