Overview

Endocrine Surgery Department

2019

The center’s endocrine surgery service is among the most experienced in the world. Cleveland Clinic often utilizes advanced minimally invasive technology for surgical care of thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, liver, endocrine, and pancreas disorders, including robot-assisted adrenalectomy. The endocrine surgery service increasingly treats patients referred for complex conditions such as reoperative problems, advanced cancers, and hereditary endocrine syndromes.

Endocrine Surgery
Total patient visits6511
New visits2102
Patients having thyroid FNA608
Total endocrine surgery cases1155
Neck cases1040
Abdominal cases115
Robot-assisted cases (neck or abdominal)46

FNA = fine needle aspiration, a type of biopsy procedure.