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European endocrine surgery in the 150-year history of Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery

“…Others defined endocrine surgery as a special kind of endocrine Fig. 11 Radioiodine scans taken before and after surgical enucleation of a toxic adenoma (from Zukschwerdt, 1962) [91] treatment substituting medical therapy of prostate and breast cancer, as Wanke put it in 1960 [89]: "Endocrine therapy or surgery already exists but only for prostate or breast cancer." The current concept of endocrine surgery dates back to the foundation of the IAES in 1979.…”

“…Although most advances in endocrine surgery were reported in the English literature by authors from within and outside of Europe, Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery managed to make crucial endocrine surgical contributions regarding -The introduction of nuclear medicine into the interdisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic work-up for benign and malignant thyroid disease [90][91][92] (Fig. 11) -Surgical anatomy of the thyroid [93], thyroid surgery in children [94,95], recurrent goiter [96,97], Graves' disease [98][99][100][101][102][103], and thyroid cancer [104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115], in particular, differentiated [116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123] and medullary thyroid carcinoma [124][125][126][127][128][129][130] -Parathyroid surgery for primary [131][132]…”