The Thyroid Disorders Specialty Group provides comprehensive consultations for patients with thyroid disease and individuals suspected of having a thyroid disorder. This typically includes evaluation and treatment of:
- Abnormal thyroid blood tests
- Abnormal thyroid scans and ultrasound exams
- Goiter
- Graves' disease
- Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO)
- Graves' dermopathy/Pretibial myxedema
- Hashimoto's thyroiditis — select cases
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism — select cases
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)
- Multinodular goiter — toxic or nontoxic
- Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome
- Thyroiditis/Postpartum thyroid disease
- Thyroid cancer, all types and stages (in collaboration with medical oncology)
- Accepting referrals for ethanol ablation of isolated malignant lesions
- Accepting referrals for active surveillance of small papillary thyroid cancer
- Thyroid nodules (including fine-needle aspiration biopsies)
- Accepting referrals for radiofrequency ablation of large, compressive benign thyroid nodules (including toxic nodules)