Endocrine surgery
Endocrine surgery specializes in the surgical treatment of endocrine diseases.
Endocrine glands produce and secrete hormones into the blood or lymph systems. These glands include the thyroid, parathyroid, hypothalamus, pineal, pituitary, adrenal, islands of Langerhans in the pancreas, and the gonads (testes and ovaries). The effects of these hormones may affect one organ or tissue, or the entire body.
There are many disorders that can result when too few hormones are secreted (hyposecretion) or too many are secreted (hypersecretion). Many of these disorders can be corrected with endocrine surgery.
More about Endocrine Surgery and the Endocrine System
The endocrine system helps regulate and maintain various body functions by synthesizing (making) and releasing hormones, chemical messengers. The major areas of control and integration include responses to stress and injury, growth and development, absorption of nutrients, energy metabolism, water and electrolyte balance, reproduction, birth, and lactation. Learn more about
endocrine surgery and additional General Surgery procedures at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
About the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
One of the nation's preeminent academic medical centers, WFUBMC is an integrated health care system that operates 1,291 acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds, outpatient services, and community health and information centers. The Medical Center's component institutions carry out a joint mission of patient care, education, research and community service. The partnership includes three major members: Wake Forest University Health Sciences, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, and Wake Forest University Physicians.
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