Endocrinology

The Thyroid Disorders Specialty Group provides comprehensive consultations for patients with thyroid disease and individuals suspected of having a thyroid disorder. This typically includes evaluation and treatment of:

• Abnormal thyroid blood tests
• Abnormal thyroid scans and ultrasound exams
• Goiter
• Graves' disease
• Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO)
• Graves' dermopathy/Pretibial myxedema
• Hashimoto's thyroiditis — select cases
• Hyperthyroidism
• Hypothyroidism — select cases
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)
• Multinodular goiter — toxic or nontoxic
• Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome
• Thyroiditis/Postpartum thyroid disease
• Thyroid cancer, all types and stages (in collaboration with medical oncology)
  • Accepting referrals for ethanol ablation of isolated malignant lesions
  • Accepting referrals for active surveillance of small papillary thyroid cancer
• Thyroid nodules (including fine-needle aspiration biopsies)
  • Accepting referrals for radiofrequency ablation of large, compressive benign thyroid nodules (including toxic nodules)