CONSULTANT ENDOCRINE SURGEONDR.K.RAKESH CHANDRU
Dr Rakesh Chandru. K is the first qualified Endocrine Surgeon and an active practitioner in the Southern districts (Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari) of Tamilnadu. He had his basic surgical training (M.S. General surgery) from Government Stanley Medical College, Chennai. He has completed super specialty training in Endocrine Surgery (Mch) from the prestigious Madras Medical College.
He has extensive experience in dealing with Endocrine disorders of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas, and multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes. He is specialized in performing complicated thyroid and parathyroid surgeries.He has got various publications in the field of Endocrine surgery in indexed medical
journals.
DR.K.RAKESH CHANDRU CONSULTANT ENDOCRINE SURGEON
- Consultation
- Education
- Membership
- Areas of interest and operative skills
- Presentations
- Publications
CONSULTANT ENDOCRINE SURGEON
- Endocrine & Thyroid Care Centre, Vadasery, Nagercoil.
VISITING CONSULTANT
- Morris Mathias Hospital, Nagercoil
- Jayaharan Hospital, Nagercoil
- Ponjesly Hospital, Nagercoil
- KMMC Hospital, Muttom, Kanniyakumari
- KKOH, Nagercoil
- PPK hospital, Marthandam
- Shifa hospitals, Tirunelveli
- Kauvery hospitals, Tirunelveli
- Kani hospital , Aralvaimozhi
- Annalakshmi Hospital, Valliyoor
CONSULTATION TIMINGS
Endocrine and Thyroid Care Centre, Nagercoil: Monday to Saturday 5 pm to 9 pm
For consultation at other hospitals, please contact the respective hospital for appointments.
MBBS 2003-2009: Kerala University
Dr Somervell Memorial CSI Medical college, Trivandrum
MS (General surgery) 2012-2015: The TN Dr.M.G.R. Medical university
Govt Stanley Medical College, Chennai
MCh (Endocrine Surgery) 2016-2019: The TN Dr.M.G.R. Medical university
Madras Medical College, Chennai
- ASI: Member Association of Surgeons of India.
- IAES: Member Indian Association of Endocrine Surgeons
- IMA: Indian Medical Association
- Thyroid cancer
- Thyrotoxicosis and Graves’ disease
- Recurrent Multinodular goiter, Retrosternal goiter
- Thyroidectomy -Hemi/Total/Redo surgeries, Neck dissections
- Ultrasound guided FNAC of thyroid nodules
- Hyperparathyroidism, Parathyroid adenoma, Parathyroid cancer
- Focused parathyroidectomy, Four gland exploration, Cervical thymectomy
- Parathyroid auto transplantation
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia
- Pheochromocytoma, Cushing’s and Conn’s Adenoma, Adrenal surgeries
- Benign and malignant breast disease, Breast surgeries
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- Invited talk on “Detection and Preservation of Parathyroid glands in Thyroidectomy” at Thyroid CA update 2024 organized by KIMS Health Cancer Centre on 23rd March 2024
- Invited talk on “Approach to Hypercalcemia- Endocrine Surgeon’s perspective” at IMA Vallioor branch held on 19th March 2024
- Moderator for the session on “Current Management of Thyroid Nodule” at ASI Nagercoil Branch held on 30th October 2023
- Invited talk on ‘Evaluation of Thyroid nodules: Basic Facts and Pitfalls’ at IMA Courtallam branch held on 26th June 2022
- Invited lecture on Cortisol- Back to Basics at 22nd Annual Conference of Indian Association of Endocrine surgeons held on 29th-31st October 2021 at Kolkata
- Invited talk on ‘An Overview of Endocrine Disorders’ at IMA Nagercoil branch held on 26th October 2021
- Muthukaruppa Pillai Oration 2021, Delivered Oration on Surgical Approach to Parathyroid Disorders at ASI Nagercoil Branch held on 27th February 2021
- Poorly differentiated and anaplastic carcinoma thyroid-our institutional experience: Oct 6th-8th, 2017 at ICS-CON 2017, Chennai, India.
- Hypokalemic periodic paralysis: an unusual presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism on 29th December, 2017 at ASICON, Jaipur, India and received best poster award
- Clinicopathological features and prognostic outcome of poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma: 10-year experience in a tertiary care institute at south India at 16th Biennial Congress of Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AaES), 9th March 2018, New Delhi, India.
- Safwan AM, Vijayan KN, Chandru R, Aakash S. Primary hyperparathyroidism and metastatic papillary carcinoma of the thyroid complicating a twin pregnancy. Kerala Surg J 2022; 28:190-3.
- K N Vijayan, Rakesh Chandru K, Akash S, Mohamad Safan A. Successful Medical Management for Bleeding Lingual BMH Med. J. 2021;8(1):41-44.
- Hussain Z, Kaharin RC, Ayub MF, Ferdinant J, Rao SS. Analyzing the relationship between differentiated thyroid cancer and thyroid autoimmunity: an exploratory study from tertiary care center in South India. Int Surg J 2019; 6:2931-4.
- , Zahir, & Rakesh Chandru K. Hypokalemic periodic paralysis: an unusual presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism. International Surgery Journal2018; 2371-2374.
- Sadacharan D, RakeshChandru K, MuhamedFaizalAyub, Ferdinant J. Incidental Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: Experience from A Tertiary Care Center in South India. International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research 2018; 2454-7379.
- Sadacharan D, Ferdinant J, Rakeshchandru K, Thalavai S. The utility of surgeon performed transcutaneous laryngeal ultrasound for the assessment of vocal cords in post-thyroidectomy patients. IntSurg J 2018; 5:3505-9.
- Zahir Hussain, & Rakesh Chandru K. Clinicopathological features and prognostic outcome of poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma: 10-year experience in a tertiary care institute at south India. Journal of cancer and tumor international 2018; 40857.
- Sadacharan D, Mahadevan S, Ferdinant J, Kaharin Rakeshchandru. Hypercalcaemic encephalopathy due to metastatic parathyroid carcinoma. BMJ case rep. 2017; bcr-2017-219664.
