The 26th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons April 3rd- 5th,2005 - Paradisus Riviera Cancun. Program SUNDAY, April 3rd, 2005 *Denotes Resident/Fellow Paper   0815 Paper 1*     Moderator: Dr. Thomas Fahey III CARCINOID TUMORS OF THE DUODENUM John T. Mullen MD, Huamin Wang MD, PhD, James C. Yao MD, Nancy D. Perrier MD, Jeffrey E. Lee MD & Douglas B. Evans, MD The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas   0830 Paper 2* VALPROIC ACID INHIBITS GROWTH, INDUCES APOPTOSIS AND MODULATES GENE EXPRESSION OF THYROGLOBULIN AND THE SODIUM-IODIDE SYMPORTER IN HUMAN THYROID CANCER CELLS Wen T. Shen MD, Ted S. Wong PhD, Mariwil G. Wong BD, Electron Kebebew MD, Quan-Yang Duh, MD, Orlo H. Clark MD University of California, San Francisco   0845 Paper 3* CHEMOEMBOLISATION (CE) FOR HEPATIC METASTASES IN MEDULLARY THYROID CARCINOMA (MTC) Kerstin Lorenz, MD, Curd Behrmann MD, Carsten Sekulla PhD, Henning Dralle MD Department of General-Visceral and Vascular Surgery and the Department of Radiology, Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany   0900 Paper 4* MUC1 PLAYS A ROLE IN TUMOR MAINTENANCE IN AGGRESSIVE THYROID CARCINOMAS Kepal N. Patel MD, Ellie Maghami MD, Volkert B. Wreesmann, MD, Ashok R. Shaha MD, Jatin P. Shah MD, Ronald Ghossein MD, Bhuvanesh Singh, MD, PhD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY   0915 Paper 5* A PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF LAPAROSCOPIC EXPLORATION WITH INTRAOPERATIVE ULTRASOUND (IOUS) AS A TECHNIQUE FOR LOCALIZING SPORADIC INSULINOMAS Amelia Grover, Skarulis MC, Alexander HR, Pingpank J, Bartlett DL, Javor ED, Chang R, Shawker T. Gorden P. Cochran C and Libutti SK National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD   0930 Paper 6* CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF LAPAROSCOPIC ADRENALECTOMY FOR ATERALIZING NODULAR HYPERPLASIA Yuri W. Novitsky MD, Kent W. Kercher MD, Andrea G. Harrell MD, William S. Cobb MD, Michael J. Rose MD, Sathya Jyothinagaram, MD, B. Todd Heniford MD Carolinas Medical Centre, Charlotte, NC Sponsor: Quan-Yang Duh     0945 Coffee Break   1030 Paper 7*     Moderator: Dr. Nancy Perrier 25-HYDROXY VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY IS A RISK FACTOR FOR POSTOPERATIVE HYPOCALCEMIA AFTER MINIMALLY INVASIVE PARATHYROIDECTOMY Zoe A. Stewart MD, PhD, Helina Somervell CRNP, Amanda Blackford ScM, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer PhD, Kent friedman MD, Alan PB Dackiw MD, PhD and Martha Z. Zeiger, MD Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, MD   1045 Paper 8* REVISITING LITHIUM-ASSOCIATED HYPERPARATHYROIDISM IN THE ERA OF INTRAOPERATIVE PARATHYROID HORMONE MONITORING (IOPTH) Jonathan C. Hundley MD, Gerard M. Doherty MD, Derek T. Woodrum MD, Brian D. Saunders MD and Paul G. Gauger MD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI   1100 Paper 9* LONG-TERM FUNCTIONALITY OF CRYOPRESERVED PARATHYROID AUTOGRAFTS: A 13-YEAR PROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS Mark S. Cohen MD, Wells SA Jr. Dilley WG, Moley JF, Doherty GM, Sicard GA, Skinner MK, Norton JA, DeBenedetti MD, Lairmore TC Washington University School of Medicine, Duke University Medical School Stanford, University Medical School & University of Michigan School of Medicine   1115 Paper 10* MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF MINIMALLY INVASIVE FOLLICULAR CARCINOMAS BY GENE PROFILING Carrie C. Lubitz, Baixin Zhu, Thomas J. Fahey III New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY   1130 Paper 11* A QUANTITATIVE ASSAY FOR DIFFERENTIATING BENIGN FROM MALIGNANT THYROID TUMORS BASED ON GENE EXPRESSION Jennifer Rosen MD, Mei He MD, Christopher Umbrict MD PhD, H. Richard Alexander MD, Alan PB Dackiw MD PhD, Martha A. Zeiger MD & Steven K. Libutti MD National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland & The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD   1145 Paper 12* HYPERTHYROIDISM AFTER PARATHYROIDECTOMY Michael T. Stang MD, John H. Yim & Sally E. Carty MD University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA   1200 Historial Vignettes of the AAES Dr. Stuart Wilson   1215-1315 LUNCH   1330 Snorkel Tour/Golf/Free Time   1800 New Members Reception (By Invitation Only)   1900 Welcome Reception     MONDAY, April 4th, 2005 *Denotes Resident/Fellow Paper   0800 Paper 13*   Moderator: Dr. Barry Inabnet THE ROLE OF INTRAOPERATIVE PARATHYROID HORMONE TESTING IN PATIENTS WITH TERTIARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION Silke V. Haustein, MD, Eberhard Mack MD, James R. Starling MD and Herbert Chen MD University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI   0815 Paper 14* RADIOACTIVE IODINE OFFERS SURVIVAL IMPROVEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA OF THE THYROID Yale D. Podnos MD, MPH, David Smith PhD, Lawrence D. Wagman MD and Joshua D.I. Ellenhorn MD City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA Sponsor: Michael Bouvet MD   0830 Paper 15* LAPAROSCOPIC RESECTION OF ADRENAL CORTICAL CARCINOMA: A CAUTIONARY NOTE Ricardo J. Gonzalez MD, Suzanne Shapiro MS, Bs, Nicholas Sarlis MD. PhD, Rena Vassilopoulou-Sellin MD, Nancy D. Perrier MD, Douglas B. Evans MD and Jeffrey E. Lee MD University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston,Texas   0845 Paper 16* DIFFERENTIAL RNA EXPRESSION PROFILE BY CDNA MICROARRAY OF SPORADIC ADRENOCORTICAL TUMORS ALLOWS IDENTIFICATION OF THE MALIGNANT PHENOTYPE David Velázquez, Laurell C, Geli J, Kjellmann M, Hoog A, Hamberger B. Nilsson P and Backdahl M Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden   0900 Keynote Address Dr. David Duick, MD, FACE "Thyroid Nodules and Mild Primary Hyperparathyroidism: examples of clinical perplexities or unresolvable conundrums". Introduction: Dr. John Kukora   0945 Coffee Break   1030 Paper 17   Moderator:Dr. Michael McLeod NODAL YIELD, MORBIDITY AND RECURRENCE AFTER CENTRAL NECK DISSECTION FOR PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER Antonio Sitges-Serra, J.A. Pereira, J. Jimeno, J. Miquel, M. Iglesias, A. Mumme, JJ Sancho Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain Sponsor: Prof. N. W. Thompson   1045 Paper 18 DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF ANGIOGENESIS MODULATING GENES IN MALIGNANT THYROID NEOPLASMS Electron Kebebew MD, Miao Peng MD, Quan-Yang Duh MD, Orlo Hl. Clark MD, David G. Ginzinger PhD, Emily Reiff BS University of California, San Franciso, Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Surgery, San Francisco, CA   1100 Paper 19 SURGERY FOR HYPERPARATHYROIDISM: DOES FUNCTION OR SIZE MATTER MOST? Leigh Delbridge, Ryan Mun, Margaret Wilkinson, Arthur Conigrave University of Sydney Endocrine Surgical Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital and School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia   1115 Paper 20 PARATHYROIDECTOMY IMPROVES NEUROCOGNITIVE DEFICITS IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM Sanziana Roman MD, Julie A. Sosa MD, Linda Mayes MD, Eric Desmond, JD, Leon Boudourakis BA, Elizabeth Holt, MD PhD and Robert Udelsman Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT   1130 Paper 21 PERSISTENTLY ELEVATED PTH LEVELS AFTER PARATHYROID SURGERY Tracy S. Wang, Samuel T. Ostrower MD, Keith S. Heller, MD Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York, NY   1145 Paper 22 HAIRY ENHANCER -OF SPLIT -1 (HES-1) A NOTCH 1 EFFECTOR, INHIBITS THE GROWTH OF CARCINOID TUMOR CELLS Muthusamy Kunnimalaiyaan PhD. Sonia Yan, Francis Wong, Yi-Wei Zhang and Herbert Chen, MD University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI   1200-1300 Lunch   1300 Paper 23    Moderator: Dr. Andy Saxe THE PROGNOSIS OF ONCOCYTIC (HURTHLE-CELL) FOLLICULAR THYROID CARCINOMA: IS IT DIFFERENT THAN ITS NON-ONCOCYTIC COUNTERPART? Philip I. Haigh MD, D. R. Urbach, MD Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles CA and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario   1315 Paper 24 USE OF SURGEON-PERFORMED OFFICE ULTRASOUND AND PARATHYROID FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION (FNA) FOR COMPLEX PARATHYROID LOCALIZATION Antonia E. Stephen, Mira Milas, Carolyn N. Garner, Kristen E. Wagner & Allan E. Siperstein Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH   1330 Presidential Address Dr. John Kukora   1430-1600 AAES Business Meeting (Members only)   1600 Free Time   1900 Reception   2000 Gala Dinner     TUESDAY, April 5th, 2005   0700 Breakfast   0800 Paper 25   Moderator: Dr. Paul Gauger PARATHYROIDECTOMY IN SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM: IS THERE AN OPTIMAL SURICAL MANAGEMENT Melanie L. Richards, Jennifer Wormuth, Juliane Bingener, Kenneth R. Sirinek University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio, Texas   0815 Paper 26 ARE FROZEN SECTIONS USEFUL AND COST-EFFECTIVE IN THE ERA OF INTRAOPERATIVE QPTH ASSAYS. Maurizio Iacobone, Franco Lumachi, Gennaro Favia, Endocrine Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterological and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy   0830 Paper 27 PRE-OPERATIVE EVALUATION OF THYROID NODULES WITH 18 FDG-PET/ Frederick D. Grant MD, Jamie C. Mitchell MD, Amy R. Evenson MD, J. Anthony Parker MD PhD, Per-Olof Hasselgren, MD, PhD, Sareh Parangi MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA   0845 Paper 28 FEASIBILITY OF 18F-FDG-GUIDED SURGERY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF METASTASES FROM DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CARCINOMA WITH NEGATIVE 131I UPTAKE F. Kraeber-Bodere, C. Curtet, B. Cariou, B. Bridjki, F. Dravet, C. Rousseau, I Resche, B. Charbonnel, J. F. Chatal, B. Carnaille, E. Mirallie aNuclear Medicine, bEndocrinology & Surgery Departments Hotel Dieu Hospital, cNuclear Medicine Department & dSurgery Departments, René Gauducheau Cancer Center, Nantes, France, eSurgery Department, Claude Huriez, Hospital, Lille, France   0900 Paper 29 INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY TESTING OF THE RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE: PLAUDITS AND PITFALLS Samuel K. Snyder MD, John C. Hendricks MD Scott & White Memorial Hospital, Temple, Texas   0915 Paper 30 ULTRASOUND FOR THE ENDOCRINE SURGEON: A VALUABLE CLINICAL TOOL TO ENHANCE DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC OUTCOMES Mira Milas, Antonia Stephen, Eren Berber, Kristin Wagner, Judiann Miskulin & Allan Siperstein The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland OH   0930 Coffee Break   1000-1230 Interesting Case Presentations Moderator: Dr. Andrew Saxe   1230 Adjournment