Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery

Horizon Cancer Care offers comprehensive and innovative expertise in Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery. Dr. Srinivas Prasad has more than two decades of extensive experience in the treatment of Thyroid, Parathyroid, and all other endocrine tumors (benign & malignant).

Types of Endocrine Tumors We Treat:
  • Thyroid Gland: Benign, Adenoma, cyst, colloid Goitre, multinodular Goitre, Graves Disease (Thyrotoxicosis)
  • Cancers: Papillary, Follicular, Medullary, Hürthle cell, anaplastic Carcinoma, and Lymphoma.
  • Parathyroid Gland: Parathyroid Adenoma, Hyperplasia and Carcinoma
  • Pancreas: Insulinoma/Gastrinoma/Glucaganoma etc apart from regular Adenocarcinomas
  • Adrenal gland: Adenoma/Adrenocortical carcinoma/Neuroblastoma/ Pheochromocytoma / Paraganglioma / Incidentaloma
  • Neuroendocrine tumors Of the Pancreas, GI tract, and Lung
Surgical Specialty Care for Endocrine Cancers at Horizon Cancer Care
Thyroid:
  • Experienced expert pathologists & advanced thyroid molecular testing at Horizon Cancer care help make a perfect diagnosis & have reduced the need for surgery to diagnose thyroid nodules
  • Meticulous, careful, and best-possible thyroid operations.
  • Frozen section biopsy confirmation of benign lesions during operation to avoid complete total thyroidectomy.
  • Nerve monitoring and precise nerve dissection are used to preserve the voice.
  • Preservation of parathyroid glands by meticulous dissection techniques thus avoiding the complication of hypocalcemia.
  • Thyroid cancer recurrence is reduced by postoperative radioactive iodine ablation.
Parathyroid Surgery:
  • Localization of parathyroid cancers tumors using ultrasound and nuclear medicine scans.
  • Complete surgical removal of parathyroid tumors is confirmed by testing the parathyroid hormone levels in the blood during operation along with Frozen section biopsy.
Adrenal Gland Tumors:
  • Management of incidentalomas (incidentally detected on routine scanning) with minimally invasive surgery.
  • Thorough & expert Preoperative preparation before surgical resection of pheochromocytomas (adrenal or extra-adrenal) preparation is essential to avoid an intraoperative hypertensive crisis.
  • Removal of benign or malignant adrenal tumors with a laparoscopic approach.
Pancreas

Depending on the location, size, and type of the tumor, one may need an enucleation, distal pancreatectomy, or a radical Whipple’s surgery.