Recent Publications:

Acute stridor secondary to recurrent multinodular goitre following a previous subtotal thyroidectomy; compartment syndrome of the neck.
Thrush S, Mohammed S, Scott-Coombes D.
European Journal of Surgery, 2002; 168: 372-3.

The investigation and management of the solitary thyroid nodule.
Bell R, Scott-Coombes D.
CME Bulletin Endocrinology and Diabetes 2002; 4(1): 10-12.

Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) presenting as a thyroid mass.
Adair A, Parker J, Scott-Coombes D.
British Journal of Haematology 2003; 120: 548.

The parathyroid glands: hyperparathyroidism and hypercalcaemia.
Scott-Coombes D.
Surgery 2003; 21: 309-312.

MIBI only parathyroid localisation - early experience.
Boorman P, Buxton-Thomas M, Scott-Coombes D. BASO annual meeting November 2000, London. Published in European Journal of Surgical Oncology 2000; 26: 857.

First-time operation for primary hyperparathyroidism: is the BAES standard defendable?
Scott-Coombes D.
BAES meeting May 2001, Plymouth. Published in British Journal of Surgery 2001; 88: 1274.

Concordant parathyroid localisation - a licence for focused parathyroidectomy?
Hughes R, Fielding P, Rees JI, Wheeler MH, Scott-Coombes DM
BAES Leeds 25-26 September 2003. Published in British Journal of Surgery 2004; 91: 382. Winner of the BJS Registrar Prize.

Chapters in books

Phaeochromocytoma.
Scott-Coombes DM, Lynn JA.
Case Presentations in The Principles of Surgery in General
Editors: Hornick P, Grace P, Lumley J
Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 1998.

Endocrine Surgery.
Scott-Coombes DM, Sellu D, Lynn JA.
Chapter 30, In: Henry; Clinical Surgery
Ballière Tindall, London 2001. (2nd Edn in press)

Thyroid surgery.
Scott-Coombes DM.
Chapter 5. In: Surgery
Editors J Corson and RCN Williamson
Mosby International, 2001.

Thyroid.
Scott-Coombes DM
Chapter 18; In The New Aird's Companion in Surgical Studies, 3rd Edn
Editors Burnand, Young, Rowlands, Schofield, Lucas.
Elsevier Science Ltd 2003 (in press).