Endocrine Conditions
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Adrenal Gland Disorders
- Addison’s Disease/Adrenal Insufficiency
- Overview
- Cushing’s Syndrome
- Overview
- In children
- Adrenal Cancer
- Introduction
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis
- Newly diagnosed
- Stages
- Treatment choices
- Surgery (types, risks, preparation and follow-up)
- Radiation therapy
- Chemotherapy
- FAQ
- Pheochromocytoma/Adrenal Gland Tumor
- Overview
- In children
- Primary adrenal Cushing’s syndrome
- Primary hyperaldosteronism (Conn’s syndrome or aldosteronoma)
- Adrenal nodules, including Incidentally discovered adrenal masses (adrenal “incidentalomas”)
- Adrenocortical carcinoma
- Isolated adrenal metastases
Thyroid Gland Disorders
- Thyroid cancer
- Risk factors
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis
- Fine needle aspiration biopsy
- Thyroid antibody test
- Thyroid function tests
- T3 test/Free and Bound Triiodothyronine (blood)
- Free and bound T4
- Thyroid stimulating hormone
- Tests after diagnosis
- Stages
- Treatment questions
- Treatment choices
- Surgery
- Targeted therapy
- Chemotherapy
- Hormone therapy
- Radioactive iodine therapy
- Iodine
- Papillary thyroid cancer
- Follicular thyroid cancer
- Hurthle cell thyroid cancer
- Medullary thyroid cancer
- Poorly (insular and anaplastic) differentiated thyroid cancer
Thyroid Gland Disorders Cont...
- Thyroid Nodules
- Solitary thyroid nodules
- Thyroid cysts
- Thyroid disease in radiation-exposed individuals (including childhood cancer survivors)
- Multinodular goiter
- Thyroiditis
- Hashimoto's thyroiditis (chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis)
- Infectious thyroiditis
- Painless thyroiditis
- Subacute thyroiditis (de Quervain's thyroiditis)
- Drug-induced or radiation thyroiditis
- Fibrous thyroiditis (Riedel's thyroiditis)
- Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
- Hyperthyroidism/Graves’ Disease/Toxic Nodular Goiter/Thyroiditis
- Overview
- Neonatal graves disease
- Graves disease in children
- In pregnancy
- Graves’ Disease
- Toxic multinodular goiter
- Toxic solitary nodule
- Hypothyroidism
- Overview
- During pregnancy
- Congenital hypothyroidism in children
- Post-surgical hypothyroidism
- Medication
- Methimazole
- Potassium iodide
- Propylthiouracil (PTU)
- Thyroid disorders in women
- Postpartum thyroiditis
Parathyroid Gland Disorders
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Overview
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
- Renal (secondary and tertiary) hyperparathyroidism
- Persistent and recurrent hyperparathyroidism
- In children
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Overview
- In children
- Drugs
- Calcitriol capsules, injection, ointment, oral solution, Learn more, Learn more, Learn more
- Calcium carbonate oral suspension
- Calcium salts oral tablets
- Ergocalciferol, Vitamin D2 oral drops and solution, tablets or capsules, Learn more
- Parathyroid tumor
- Diagnosis
- Parathyroid hormone assay/parathyrin/parathormone
- Disorders of the Pancreas
- Insulinoma
- Gastrinoma (Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome)
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, Type 1
- Genetic Syndromes
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN-1, MEN-2A, MEN-2B)
- Familial pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndromes