Published in:
01-09-2010 | Editorial
Surgical endocrinology—update 2010
Author:
Bruno Niederle
Published in:
Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
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Issue 7/2010
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Excerpt
“In the ensuing three-quarters of a century, the science called ‘surgical endocrinology’ has come a long way and currently, this rather recently adopted surgical child is assuming just recognition by the more established members of the surgical family. The modern surgical endocrinologist has been trained to visualise and manage the endocrine system as a whole and should feel equally comfortable dealing with endocrine problems in the neck, pancreas, gastrointestinal tract, or adrenal glands.” It was J. A. van Heerden ([
21] World J Surgery), who—for the first time—summarised the aspects of “Surgical Endocrinology” (synonym: Endocrine Surgery) in 1982 shortly after the memorable foundation of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons in 1979 in San Francisco, which acts as an umbrella group for endocrine surgeons worldwide. Besides The “American Association of Endocrine Surgeons”, the “Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons” and the “Australian and New Zealand Association of Endocrine Surgeons”, just to name a few, the “European Society of Endocrine Surgeons” (ESES;
www.eses.cc) founded in 2003 in Vienna, is the well-established representative of European surgeons who have a specialist interest in surgery of the endocrine glands ([
9] Langenbecks Arch Surg). …
