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Adrenal Glands

Diagnostic Aspects and Surgical Therapy

  • Practical guide to surgery of the adrenal glands

  • First book to cover all aspects and current surgical techniques regarding treatment of diseases of the adrenal glands

  • High quality color illustrations; helps understand the surgical procedures step by step; highly structured for easy reference

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
  2. History of Adrenal Surgery

    • Dean A. Harris, Malcolm H. Wheeler
    Pages 1-6
  3. Surgical Anatomy

    • Nancy Dugal Perrier, Michael Sean Boger
    Pages 7-18
  4. Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis

    • Ioannis Kyrou, Constantine Tsigos
    Pages 19-32
  5. The Sympathoadrenal System

    • A. Souvatzoglou
    Pages 33-39
  6. The Value of Adrenal Imaging in Adrenal Surgery

    • Bruno Niederle, Gertraud Heinz-Peer, Klaus Kaczirek, Amir Kurtaran
    Pages 41-56
  7. Cushing’s Syndrome

    • Alejandro Ayala, George Chrousos
    Pages 57-66
  8. Subclinical Cushing’s Syndrome

    • Felix Beuschlein, Martin Reincke
    Pages 67-74
  9. Ectopic Cushing’s Syndrome

    • D. Vassiliadi, S. Tsagarakis, N. Thalassinos
    Pages 75-85
  10. Cushing’s Syndrome in Children and Adolescents

    • George Mastorakos, Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein
    Pages 87-99
  11. Classic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

    • Evangelia Charmandari, George Chrousos, Deborah P. Merke
    Pages 101-113
  12. Overview of Mineralocorticoid Excess Syndromes

    • Richard D. Gordon, Michael Stowasser
    Pages 115-126
  13. Primary Aldosteronism: The Surgical Perspective

    • Bertil Hamberger
    Pages 127-130
  14. Primary Adrenocortical Carcinoma

    • Charles A.G. Proye, François N. Pattou, Jonathan Armstrong
    Pages 131-142
  15. Recurrent Adrenocortical Carcinoma

    • Paolo Miccoli, Pietro Iacconi
    Pages 143-150
  16. Metastatic Adrenocortical Carcinoma

    • D. E. Tsakayannis, Dimitrios A. Linos
    Pages 151-157
  17. Virilizing and Feminizing Adrenal Tumors

    • Michael Brauckhoff, Oliver Gimm, Henning Dralle
    Pages 159-176
  18. Pheochromocytoma

    • Cord Sturgeon, Quan-Yang Duh
    Pages 177-188
  19. Extra-adrenal and Malignant Pheochromocytoma

    • Gerard M. Doherty
    Pages 189-194

About this book

 

Surgery of the Adrenal Glands is a comprehensive  medical textbook that includes everything that a surgeon, but for all purposes any physicain or medical student, may want to find on adrenal surgery in a friendly, up to date, evidence based manner. 30 of the most renowned names in the field of adrenal surgery from the US and Europe draw on their experience in exploring diagnosis, indications for surgery, choice of operation and  operative techniques, and surgical outcomes for every major adrenal condition. Over 200 exquisite illustrations, ranging from intraoperative photographs, line drawings, diagnostic images, pathology slides, tables and graphs are available to make each case discussed comprehensible and easy to follow.  Traditional and novel therapeutic recommendations are introduced and the latest developments in minimal-access operative techniques are discussed and reviewed. Finally, the best approaches in dealing with challenging conditions such as adrenal incidentaloma, subclinical Cushing's syndrom, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Mineralcorticoid Express Syndrome, Extraadrenal and Malignant Pheochromocytoma are discussed.  

Reviews

From the reviews:

"Plenty of thought has been put into the detail of this work … . there is a consistency throughout the book and the chapters are well referenced. The operative technique section is particularly well illustrated … . The chapter on adrenal sparing surgery is both fascinating and thought provoking. … This is a valuable reference book for endocrinologists, radiologists and endocrine surgeons. It is essential reading for the increasing number of surgeons who are gifted in laparoscopic surgery but ignorant about the subject of endocrine surgery … ." (D. Scott-Coombes, The Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland, Vol. 3 (6), 2005)

"An up to date, quite practical but yet comprehensive textbook focused on the field … . From its preface to subject index, this book is really exciting. In my opinion, the very first author’s merit was to approach the problematics of adrenal diseases in a very practical way; Every topic is addressed … by contributors with a well-established experience in the field. … Dimitrios Linos and Jon van Heerden stroke a decisive blow with their state-of-the-art textbook on Adrenal surgery. … endeavour that was well worth their effort." (Etienne Hamoir, Acta Chirurgica Belgica, Vol. 105 (4), 2005)

"The various syndromes associated with the adrenal gland are described in great detail and this book brings together a wealth of experience of some extremely rare conditions. There are excellent up-to-date chapters … . The illustrations are clear and the text valuable. All in all, this is an excellent monograph on the surgery of the adrenal glands and is to be recommended to all who have an interest in the management of the rare conditions associated with them." (Richard Collins, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Vol. 88, 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Director 1st Surgical Clinic, Hygeia Hospital, Kifissia, Greece

    Dimitrios Linos

  • Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

    Jon A. Heerden

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adrenal Glands

  • Book Subtitle: Diagnostic Aspects and Surgical Therapy

  • Editors: Dimitrios Linos, Jon A. Heerden

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138213

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-41099-7Published: 07 December 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07432-5Published: 14 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-26861-1Published: 15 August 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 362

  • Number of Illustrations: 187 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Surgery, Endocrinology, Urology, Oncology

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eBook USD 89.00
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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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