Endocrine Surgery
Endocrine Surgery

Digestive Disease Institute

Endocrine Surgery Program

  • Overview
  • Diagnosis & Treatment
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Overview

The Endocrine Surgery Program at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi’s Integrated Surgical Institute provides specialized treatment for diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, and adrenal glands.

This program is led by a team of surgical subspecialists who have completed focused training in the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases. These endocrine experts work closely with Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi’s medical endocrinologists in the Medical Specialty Institute and perform a large number of endocrine surgeries each year.

What We Treat

Our endocrine surgeons have extensive experience in the treatment of disorders of the endocrine system, which includes the thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, and adrenal glands. Additionally, we focus on diseases that are hereditary (and therefore tend to occur in members of the same family), diseases that repeat or return, and diseases that affect multiple glands. Some of the conditions treated by the Endocrine Surgery Program include:

Thyroid

  • Thyroid nodules: Abnormal growth of cells on the thyroid.
  • Cysts: Growths on the thyroid that are filled with fluid.
  • Goiter: Enlargement of the thyroid gland.
  • Thyroid cancers: Thyroid cancers include papillary cancers, follicular cancer, and medullary cancer. They can occur as poorly differentiated cancer or anaplastic cancer (cancers that involve highly abnormal tumor cells that tend to grow and spread quickly), metastatic cancer (cancer that spreads), recurrent cancers (cancer that returns), and advanced stage cancer.
  • Hyperthyroidism: Overactivity of the thyroid gland, resulting in too much thyroid hormone in the bloodstream. Includes Graves' disease and toxic nodules.

Parathyroid

  • Parathyroid tumors: Abnormal growths on the parathyroid gland(s).
  • Hyperparathyroidism: Overactivity of the parathyroid gland(s), resulting in elevated calcium levels in the blood.

Adrenal tumors

  • Nonfunctional adrenal tumors: Tumors that do not produce hormones and therefore do not cause syndromes or diseases. These tumors are usually benign.
  • Functional adrenal tumors and nodules: Tumors that do not produce hormones and cause certain diseases and syndromes, such as Cushing's disease and hyperthyroidism.
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