Thyroid Physiology.-Emil Theodor Kocher.- Karl von Basedow.- Jan Wolff and Israel L. Chaikoff.- Hyperthyroidism and Thyroiditis.-Robert James Graves.-Henry Stanley Plummer.- Hakaru Hashimoto.- Fritz de Quervain.- George W. Crile.- Multinodular Goiter.- Hugh Spear Pemberton.- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.- John Richard Farndon.- Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Papillary, Follicular, and Oncocytic.- Karl Hürthle.- Update of the Treatment Guidelines for Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Frank Lahey.- Thomas Dunhill.- Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Diagnosis and Work Up.- Sir Richard Owen.- Fuller Albright James Bertram Collip.- Surgical Management of Hyperparathyroidism.- Felix Mandl.- Oliver Cope.- Parathyroidectomy - Post-Operative Considerations / Complications.- Frantisek Chvostek.- Armand Trousseau.- Theodor Billroth.- Adrenal Physiology.- Thomas Addison.- Primary Aldosteronism.- Jerome W. Conn.- Cushing's Syndrome.- Harvey Cushing.- J. Aidan Carney.- Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma.- Charles Horace Mayo.- Arthur M. Shipley.- Emil Zuckerkandl.- Insulinoma.- Sir Fredrick Grant Banting.- Charles Herbert Best.- Allen Oldfather Whipple.- William J. Mayo.- Gastrinoma.- Robert Milton Zollinger.- Edwin H. Ellison.- VIPoma.- John V. Verner Jr. and Ashton B. Morrison.- Glucagonoma.- Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors.- Carcinoid Syndrome.- Sigfried Oberndorfer.- von Hippel-Lindau Disease.- Eugen von Hippel and Arvid Lindau.- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1.- Paul Wermer.- Norman W. Thompson.- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2 Syndromes.- John H. Sipple.

This book covers clinical management including diagnosis, localization and physiology, for a number of clinical diseases treated by endocrinologists and surgeons. Following each chapter there is a 3-4 page biographical sketch of the person behind the clinical endocrinopathy, whose name is closely associated with the disease. The field of endocrine surgery is rich in history and this is the first text to bring together in one place the person behind the disease and the pioneers of the field. The text covers both the current management of endocrine surgical diseases, and also provides a historical background by highlighting the person in whom these discoveries were named after.

Surgical Endocrinopathies is of great value to endocrine surgeons, ENT surgeons, endocrinologists, internal medicine and medical historians.