Research Summary

Dr. Quan-Yang Duh specializes in surgery to treat tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands, as well as other hormone gland and gastrointestinal malignancies. He has a special interest in laparoscopic endocrine surgery and other minimally invasive procedures for these disorders.

Duh earned his medical degree at UCSF, where he also completed his residency training in surgery and a fellowship in endocrine surgery.

Duh is president of the American College of Surgeons' Northern California chapter. He is listed in Castle Connolly America's Top Doctors.

Education

M.D., 1981 - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Residency, - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Selected Publications

  1. Kuo TC, Duh QY, Wang YC, Lai CW, Chen KY, Lin MT, Wu MH. Practice Patterns and Learning Curve in Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach With Neuromonitoring. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021; 12:744359.  View on PubMed
  2. Pearlstein SS, Conroy PC, Menut KC, Kim J, Graves CE, Ruiz-Cordero R, Duh QY. Evaluation of Necrosis as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Indicator in Adrenocortical Carcinoma. JAMA Surg. 2021 Sep 08.  View on PubMed
  3. Conroy PC, Hernandez S, Graves CE, Menut KC, Pearlstein S, Liu C, Shen WT, Gosnell J, Sosa JA, Roman S, Duh QY, Suh I. Screening for Primary Aldosteronism is Underutilized in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Am J Med. 2022 01; 135(1):60-66.  View on PubMed
  4. Yap A, Hope TA, Graves CE, Kluijfhout W, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Sosa JA, Roman SA, Duh QY, Suh I. A cost-utility analysis of 18F-fluorocholine-positron emission tomography imaging for localizing primary hyperparathyroidism in the United States. Surgery. 2022 01; 171(1):55-62.  View on PubMed
  5. Kim J, Sun Z, Cummins M, Donohue KC, Lea R, Graves CE, Shen WT, Gosnell JE, Roman SA, Sosa JA, Duh QY, Suh I. Implications of radiofrequency ablation in patients undergoing thyroid surgery for benign disease in the United States. Surgery. 2022 01; 171(1):160-164.  View on PubMed
  6. Graves CE, Hope TA, Kim J, Pampaloni MH, Kluijfhout W, Seib CD, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Roman SA, Sosa JA, Duh QY, Suh I. Superior sensitivity of 18F-fluorocholine: PET localization in primary hyperparathyroidism. Surgery. 2022 01; 171(1):47-54.  View on PubMed
  7. Koh J, Zhang R, Roman S, Duh QY, Gosnell J, Shen W, Suh I, Sosa JA. Ex Vivo Intact Tissue Analysis Reveals Alternative Calcium-sensing Behaviors in Parathyroid Adenomas. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 10 21; 106(11):3168-3183.  View on PubMed
  8. Chomsky-Higgins Menut K, Pearlstein SS, Conroy PC, Roman SA, Shen WT, Gosnell J, Sosa JA, Duh QY, Suh I. Screening for primary aldosteronism in the hypertensive obstructive sleep apnea population is cost-saving. Surgery. 2022 01; 171(1):96-103.  View on PubMed
  9. Duh QY, Graves CE. It Helps to Know Where to Look: Visual Identification of Unintentionally Resected Parathyroid Glands is Improved When Inspection is Directed by Near Infrared Autofluorescence Imaging. World J Surg. 2021 09; 45(9):2791-2792.  View on PubMed
  10. Duh QY. The Public may be Right: Should We Reconsider Minimum Surgeon Volumes? World J Surg. 2021 07; 45(7):2132-2133.  View on PubMed
  11. Agcaoglu O, Sezer A, Makay O, Erdogan MF, Bayram F, Guldiken S, Raffaelli M, Sonmez YA, Lee YS, Vamvakidis K, Mihai R, Duh QY, Akinci B, Alagol F, Almquist M, Barczynski M, Bayraktaroglu T, Berber E, Bukey Y, Cakmak GK, Canturk NZ, Canturk Z, Celik M, Celik O, Ceyhan BO, Cherenko S, Clerici T, Coombes DS, Demircan O, Deyneli O, Dionigi G, Emre AU, Erbil Y, Filiz AI, Gozu HI, Gurdal SO, Gurleyik G, Haciyanli M, Kebudi A, Kim S, Koutelidakis G, Kuru B, Mert M, Oruk GG, Ozbas S, Palazzo F, Pandev R, Riss P, Sabuncu T, Sahin I, Sakman G, Saygili F, Senyurek YG, Sleptsov I, Van Slycke S, Teksoz S, Terzioglu T, Tezelman S, Tunca F, Ugurlu MU, Uludag M, Villar-Del-Moral J, Vriens M, Yazici D. Management of endocrine surgical disorders during COVID-19 pandemic: expert opinion for non-surgical options. Updates Surg. 2021 Apr 11.  View on PubMed
  12. Hope TA, Graves CE, Calais J, Ehman EC, Johnson GB, Thompson D, Aslam M, Duh QY, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Roman SA, Sosa JA, Kluijfhout WP, Seib CD, Villaneuva-Meyer JE, Pampaloni MH, Suh I. Accuracy of 18F-Fluorocholine PET for the Detection of Parathyroid Adenomas: Prospective Single-Center Study. J Nucl Med. 2021 11; 62(11):1511-1516.  View on PubMed
  13. Baechle JJ, Marincola Smith P, Solórzano CC, Tran TB, Postlewait LM, Maithel SK, Prescott J, Pawlik T, Wang TS, Glenn J, Hatzaras I, Shenoy R, Phay JE, Shirley LA, Fields RC, Jin L, Abbott DE, Ronnekleiv-Kelly S, Sicklick JK, Yopp A, Mansour J, Duh QY, Seiser N, Votanopoulos K, Levine EA, Poultsides G, Kiernan CM. Cumulative GRAS Score as a Predictor of Survival After Resection for Adrenocortical Carcinoma: Analysis From the U.S. Adrenocortical Carcinoma Database. Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 Oct; 28(11):6551-6561.  View on PubMed
  14. Doherty GM, Gartland RM, Duh QY. Choosing Wisely in the Workup of Primary Hyperaldosteronism. JAMA Surg. 2021 Feb 01; 156(2):171-172.  View on PubMed
  15. Solórzano CC, Thomas G, Berber E, Wang TS, Randolph GW, Duh QY, Triponez F. Current state of intraoperative use of near infrared fluorescence for parathyroid identification and preservation. Surgery. 2021 04; 169(4):868-878.  View on PubMed
  16. Duh QY. Understanding the epidemiology of adrenal tumours. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2020 11; 8(11):871-873.  View on PubMed
  17. Chen YH, Kim HY, Anuwong A, Huang TS, Duh QY. Transoral robotic thyroidectomy versus transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy: a propensity-score-matched analysis of surgical outcomes. Surg Endosc. 2020 Oct 27.  View on PubMed
  18. Kim J, Graves CE, Jin C, Duh QY, Gosnell JE, Shen WT, Suh I, Sosa JA, Roman SA. Intraoperative nerve monitoring is associated with a lower risk of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury: A national analysis of 17,610 patients. Am J Surg. 2021 02; 221(2):472-477.  View on PubMed
  19. Duh QY, Suh I, Stoller ML. Underdiagnosis of Primary Hyperparathyroidism-The Need for a System-Level Fix. JAMA Surg. 2020 09 01; 155(9):868-869.  View on PubMed
  20. King SD, Arellano R, Gordon V, Olinger A, Seib CD, Duh QY, Suh I. Anatomic Variations From 120 Mental Nerve Dissections: Lessons for Transoral Thyroidectomy. J Surg Res. 2020 12; 256:543-548.  View on PubMed

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