Endocrine Surgery

Talk to your primary care physician about a referral to CMU Health Surgery if you need treatment for any of the following:

• Graves' disease
  
• Hyperparathyroidism
  
• Multi-nodular goiter
  
• Parathyroid adenoma
  
• Thyroid cancer
  
• Thyroid nodules
  
• Hereditary syndromes with increased risk of thyroid or parathyroid cancers
  

Four-gland exploration is the surgical assessment of all four parathyroid glands to evaluate for evidence of disease.

CMU Health doctors have the expertise, training and technology to provide optimal care for patients suffering from conditions requiring surgical and non-surgical treatment. Our surgeons develop treatment plans specific to each patient and give them the care and attention to attain the best possible results.

Our surgeons have privileges at both Ascension St. Mary’s and Covenant HealthCare in Saginaw. Because we have a working relationship with both hospital systems, we are able to accommodate patients with their preference of care location, including access to sites in Northern Michigan and in the Thumb for chemotherapy and/or radiation oncology.

As part of our partnership with the local hospital systems, all cancer cases from CMU Health patients may be presented a Tumor Conference at both hospitals to get a consensus statement on how to best proceed with care.

In addition to seeing patients at two regional hospitals, we also offer outpatient treatment at CMU Health Surgery on Washington Avenue in Saginaw, along with satellite office locations in Bay City, Caro, Standish and Tawas.

CMU Health Surgery is also the only surgical practice in the Saginaw area that provides access to national clinical trial enrollment through the Michigan Cancer Research Consortium.

Maher Ghanem, MD, FACS

Samuel Shaheen, MD, FACS