The Mount Sinai Endocrine Surgery Parathyroid Center

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The Endocrine Surgery Parathyroid Center is now seeing patients in the Endocrine Neoplasia Program in Mount Sinai's new translational science building - the Leon and Norma Hess Center of Science and Medicine

The Endocrine Surgery Parathyroid Center is a Mount Sinai program that provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary care to patients with disorders of the parathyroid glands. The members of the program provide expert care in a highly coordinated, efficient manner in our state of the art practice space which is located just steps from Central Park on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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What We Do

The Endocrine Surgery Parathyroid Center is  a key component of the Endocrine Neoplasia Program, which  resides in the Division of Metabolic, Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the world-renowned Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Highlights of the program include:

• Internationally acclaimed faculty and director
• Confirmation of diagnosis
• Comprehensive laboratory testing
• Bone densitometry scheduling
  
• Advanced parathyroid imaging and gland localization
• Parathyroid CT scanning interpreted by parathyroid radiologist
• Surgeon-performed parathyroid ultrasonography
  
• Intraoperative PTH testing
  
• Minimally invasive parathyroid surgery
• Bilateral neck exploration
• Video-endoscopic parathyroid surgery
• Radioguided parathyroidectomy (MIRP)
• Revisional parathyroid surgery
• Local anesthesia
• Dedicated parathyroid anesthesiologist
  
• Intra-operative nerve monitoring
• Ambulatory surgery (same-day discharge)
  
• Defined clinical pathways
• Outcomes tracking
  
• One of the busiest programs in the Northeast if not the United States
• Multiple offsite offices in the Bronx, Yonkers and Staten Island

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Parathyroid CT scan



What's New:

Mount Sinai Parathyroid CT Scanning: Our most accurate preoperative localizing study.  Ideal for patients with negative parathyroid sestamibi scans.  Have your study performed the same day as your consultation.

2013 Endocrine Surgery Parathyroid Center publication in JAMA Surgery shows safety and efficacy of parathyroid CT scanning

NY Endocrine Surgery Course: In Dec 2012, the ESPC hosted the 1st Annual NY Endocrine Surgery Course, an educational event that was organized to educate other surgeons on the latest developments in parathyroid and endocrine surgery.  The 2013 course will take place December 6-7 at Mount Sinai.

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Contact info

Director:

William B Inabnet III, MD

Endocrinology:

Jessica Lambert, MD

Alice Levine, MD

Robert Yanagisawa, MD

Endocrine Surgery:

William B Inabnet III, MD

Randall Owen, MD

Bone Metabolism:

Barrie Weinstein, MD

Maria Skamagis, MD

Parathyroid Imaging:

Puneet Pawha, MD

Nuclear Medicine:

Lale Kostakoglu, MD

Joseph Machac, MD

Anesthesia:

Michael Bialos, MD

Endocrine Laboratory Director:

Lakshmi Ramanathan, MD