Endocrine Surgery: Current Treatment and Future Options
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 745
Special Issue Editors
Interests: endocrine surgery; thyroid surgery; parathyroid surgery; thyroid cancer surgery; minimally invasive thyroid surgery—Mivat
Interests: endocrine surgery; thyroid surgery; parathyroid surgery; Graves' disease; thyroid carcinoma; PTC; neuroendocrine neoplasms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Endocrine surgery, as a distinct subspecialty within general surgery, is currently experiencing a period of transformation. Across many countries, there is a clear movement toward the establishment of highly specialized centers dedicated to individual endocrine organs. This development inevitably raises the question of whether increasing subspecialization may come at the cost of the broad, integrative perspective that once characterized the endocrine surgeon.
Simultaneously, novel operative techniques are being introduced—particularly in thyroid surgery—primarily driven by the pursuit of superior cosmetic outcomes. While these approaches expand the surgical armamentarium, they also raise important questions regarding their appropriate indications (benign versus malignant disease) and the potential for new, procedure-specific complications that must be carefully evaluated. Beyond thyroid procedures, adrenal surgery has likewise entered a new era, with robot-assisted techniques gaining increasing attention. Taken together, these developments prompt a deeper reflection on how rapidly evolving surgical technologies and the trend toward organ-specific specialization will shape the future of endocrine surgery as a discipline. Will the field maintain its comprehensive scope or evolve into a constellation of more narrowly defined, technology-driven subfields?
This Special Issue aims to highlight these ongoing transformations. We welcome contributions that present innovative surgical techniques alongside those that revisit established approaches, thereby illustrating the dynamic and multifaceted landscape of modern endocrine surgery.
Dr. Pietro Princi
Dr. Julia Staubitz-Vernazza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- endocrine surgery
- thyroid surgery
- parathyroid surgery
- adrenal gland surgery
- neuroendocrine neoplasms
- thyroid cancer
- thyroid cancer treatment
- surgical endocrinology
- robotic endocrine surgery
- laparoscopic adrenalectomy
- ret-roperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy
- parathyroidectomy
- benign thyroid disease
- thyroid ablation
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