Conditions Treated

Dr Black sees patients for a wide range of endocrine and general surgical conditions including:

Thyroid

  • Investigation of neck lumps

  • Thyroid nodules

  • Goitres

  • Thyroid cancer or suspicious biopsies

  • Hyperthyroidism including Graves’ disease

  • Thyroiditis

  • Family or personal history of thyroid cancer

Parathyroid

  • Investigation of elevated calcium/PTH levels

  • Primary hyperparathyroidism

  • Secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism

  • Persistent/recurrent hyperparathyroidism requiring reoperative surgery

  • Genetic endocrine conditions e.g. MEN

Adrenal

  • Work up of adrenal incidentalomas

  • Benign adrenal adenomas

  • Adrenocortical cancers

  • Hormone producing tumours including phaeochromocytoma, Conn’s syndrome, Cushing’s syndrome

General Surgery

  • Hernias

  • Lymph node excisions

  • Lipomas