Dr. Edwin Louis Kaplan M.D.
Surgeon
5841 S Maryland Ave Mail Code 5031 Chicago IL, 60637Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Edwin Kaplan is a world-respected endocrine surgeon. He is an expert in the surgical management of thyroid, parathyroid, endocrine, pancreatic, and adrenal diseases. He is the editor of two bo ... ...
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1961
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 1961
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Pitfalls of intraoperative quick parathyroid hormone monitoring and gamma probe localization in surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism.
- Clinical case seminar: Riedel's thyroiditis: report of a case complicated by spontaneous hypoparathyroidism, recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, and Horner's syndrome.
- Parathyroid carcinoma in secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism.
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia 2A syndrome presenting as peripartum cardiomyopathy due to catecholamine excess.
- Open versus laparoscopic simultaneous bilateral adrenalectomy.
- Successful palliation of hypercalcemia secondary to metastatic parathyroid cancer: an unusual indication for hepatic resection.
- How does the operative strategy for primary hyperparathyroidism impact the findings and cure rate? A comparison of 800 parathyroidectomies.
- Radiation-induced thyroid cancer: the Chicago experience.
- Malpractice litigation after thyroid surgery: the role of recurrent laryngeal nerve injuries, 1989-2009.
- Primary hyperparathyroidism in adolescents: the same but different.
- The acceleration in papillary thyroid cancer incidence rates is similar among racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
- The clinical and economic burden of a sustained increase in thyroid cancer incidence.
- Hurthle cell carcinoma: an update on survival over the last 35 years.
- A study of recurrence and death from papillary thyroid cancer with 27 years of median follow-up.
- A novel technique to improve the diagnostic yield of negative sestamibi scans.
Awards
- 2012 Chicago Super Doctors
Treatments
- Endocrine Surgery, Endocrine Cancer, Thyroid Surgery (thyroidectomy) And More
Professional Memberships
- Member American Association of Endocrine Surgeons
- Member American College of Surgeons
- Member American Gastroenterological Association
- Member American Surgical Association
- Member Chicago Surgical Society
- Member Illinois Surgical Society
- Member International Association of Endocrine Surgeons
- Member Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
- Member Society of University Surgeons
- Member The Endocrine Society
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