Elizabeth Gardner Grubbs, M.D.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Romero Arenas MA, Rich TA, Hyde SM, Busaidy NL, Cote GJ, Hu MI, Gagel RF, Gidley PW, Jimenez C, Kupferman ME, Peterson SK, Sherman SI, Ying A, Bassett RL Jr., Waguespack SG, Perrier ND, Grubbs EG. Recontacting Patients with Updated Genetic Testing Recommendations for Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma and Pheochromocytoma or Paraganglioma. Ann Surg Oncol 25(5):1395-1402, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29427212.
2. Jaber T, Hyde SM, Cote GJ, Grubbs EG, Giles WH, Stevens CA, Dadu R.. A homozygous RET K666N genotype with an MEN2A phenotype. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 103(4):1269-1272, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29408964.
3. Amit M, Tam S, Boonsripitayanon M, Cabanillas ME, Busaidy NL, Grubbs EG, Lai SY, Gross ND, Sturgis EM, Zafereo ME.. Association of Lymph Node Density With Survival of Patients With Papillary Thyroid Cancer. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 144(2):108-114, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29192312.
4. Pena I, Clayman GL, Grubbs EG, Bergeron JM Jr, Waguespack SG, Cabanillas ME, Dadu R, Hu MI, Fellman BM, Li Y, Gross ND, Lai SY, Sturgis EM, Zafereo ME. Management of the Lateral Neck Compartment in Patients with Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Cancer. Head Neck 40(1):79-85, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29044788.
5. Cote, GJ, Evers, C, Hu, MI, Grubbs EG, Williams, MD, Hai, T, Duose, DY, Houston, MR, Bui, JH, Mehrotra, M, Waguespack, SG, Busaidy, NI, Cabanillas, ME, Habra, MA, Luthra R, Sherman SI. Prognostic Significance of Circulating RET M918T Mutated Tumor DNA in Patients with Advanced Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma. Journal of Clinical Endocrine & Metabolism 102(8):3591-3599, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28911154.
6. Voss RK, Grubbs EG. Response Letter: "Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma in MEN2A: ATA Moderate- or High-Risk RET Mutations Do Not Predict Disease Aggressiveness". J Clin Endocrinol Metab 102(9):3559, 2017. PMID: 28911160.
7. ME Naofal, A Kim, HY Yon, M Baity, Z Ming, J Bui-Griffith, Z Tang, M Robinson, Grubbs EG, GJ Cote, P Hu. Role of CDKN2C Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization in the Management of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma. Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science 47(5):523-528, 2017. PMID: 29066476.
8. Starker LF, Christakis I, Julien JS, Schwarz K, Graham P, Grubbs EG, Lee JE, Perrier ND. Considering Postoperative Functional Hypoaldosteronism after Unilateral Adrenalectomy. Am Surg 83(6):598-604, 2017. PMID: 28637561.
9. Silva AM, Vodopivec D, Christakis I, Lyons G, Wei Q, Waguespack SG, Petak SM, Grubbs E, Lee JE, Perrier N.. Operative intervention for primary hyperparathyroidism offers greater bone recovery in patients with sporadic disease than in those with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1-related hyperparathyroidism. Surgery 161(1):107-115, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27842919.
10. Xu, JY, Murphy, WA, Milton DR, Jimenez, C, Rao, SN, Habra MA, Maguespack, SG, Dadu, R, Gagel RF, Ying, AK, Cabanillas, ME, Weitzman SP, Busaidy, NL, Sellin, RV, Grubbs E, Sherman, SI, Hu MI. Bone Metastases and Skeletal-Related Events in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 101(12):4871-4877, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27662441.
11. Xu JY, Grubbs EG, Waguespack SG, Jimenez C, Gagel RF, Sosa JA, Vassilopoulou-Sellin R, Dadu R, Hu MI, Trotter CS, Jackson M, Rich TA, Hyde SM, Sherman SI, Cote GJ.. Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Associated with Germline RET K666N Mutation. Thyroid 26(12):1744-1751, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27673361.
12. Grubbs EG, Williams MD, Scheet P, Vattathil S, Perrier N, Lee JE, Gagel RF, Hai T, Feng L, Cabanillas M, Cote GJ.. The role of CDKN2C copy number in sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma. Thyroid 26(11):1553-1562, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27610696.
13. Christakis I, Silva AM, Kwatampora LJ, Warneke CL, Clarke CN, Williams MD, Grubbs EG, Lee JE, Busaidy NL, Perrier ND.. Oncologic progress for the treatment of parathyroid carcinoma is needed. J Surg Oncol 11(6):708-713, 2016. PMID: 27753088.
14. Long KL, Etzel C, Rich T, Hyde S, Perrier ND, Graham PH, Lee JE, Hu MI, Cote GJ, Gagel R, Grubbs EG. All in the family? Analyzing the impact of family history in addition to genotype on medullary thyroid carcinoma aggressiveness in MEN2A patients. Fam Cancer 16(2):283-289. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27864651.
15. Christakis I, Bussaidy N, Clarke C, Kwatampora LJ, Warneke CL, Silva AM, Williams MD, Grubbs EG, Lee JE, Perrier ND.. Differentiating Atypical Parathyroid Neoplasm from Parathyroid Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 23(9):2889-97, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27160525.
16. Christakis IA, Potylchansky E, Silva AM, Nates JP, Prieto PA, Graham PH, Grubbs EG, Lee JE, Perrier ND.. Cervical hematoma following an endocrine surgical procedure: The MD Anderson experience. Surgery 160(2):377-83, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27063343.
17. Christakis I, Qiu W, Silva Figueroa AM, Hyde S, Cote GJ, Busaidy NL, Williams M, Grubbs E, Lee JE, Perrier ND.. Clinical Features, Treatments, and Outcomes of Patients with Thymic Carcinoids and Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 Syndrome at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Horm Cancer 7(4):279-289, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27311764.
18. Starker LF, Prieto PA, Liles JS, Tran Cao HS, Grubbs EG, Lee JE, Perrier ND, Graham PH.. Endocrine incidentalomas. Curr Probl Surg 53(5):219-46, 2016. PMID: 27325542.
19. Day RW, Fleming J, Katz MH, Grubbs E, Bednarski BK, Lee JE, Aloia TA.. Rapid assessment of technical competency: the 8-min suture test. J Surg Res 200(1):46-52, 2016. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26276369.
20. Cabanillas ME, Dadu R, Hu MI, Lu C, Gunn GB, Grubbs EG, Lai SY, Williams MD. Thyroid Gland Malignancies. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 29(16):1123-43, 2015. PMID: 26568552.
21. Vodopivec DM, Habra MA, Ng C, Sircar K, Grubbs EG.. Giant Adrenal Myelolipoma in the Context of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. Endocr Pract 21(7):854, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26121444.
22. Grubbs EG, Ng PK, Bui J, Busaidy NL, Chen K, Lee JE, Lu X, Lu H, Meric-Bernstam F, Mills GB, Palmer G, Perrier ND, Scott KL, Shaw KR, Waguespack SG, Williams MD, Yelensky R, Cote GJ. RET fusion as a novel driver of medullary thyroid carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 100(3):788-93, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25546157.
23. Dy BM, Strajina V, Cayo AK, Richards ML, Farley DR, Grant CS, Harmsen WS, Evans DB, Grubbs EG, Bible KC, Young WF, Perrier ND, Que FG, Nagorney DM, Lee JE, Thompson GB.. Surgical resection of synchronously metastatic adrenocortical cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 22(1):145-51, 2015. PMID: 25092161.

Invited Articles

1. Grubbs EG, Gagel RF. My, How Things Have Changed in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2A!. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 100(7):2532-5, 2015. PMID: 26151398.
2. Landry CS, Ruppe MD, Grubbs EG. Vitamin D receptors and parathyroid glands. Endocr Pract 1:63-68, 2011. PMID: 21454240.

Abstracts

1. Morris LF, Harris RS, Milton DR, Waguespack SG, Habra MA, Jimenez C, Vassilopoulou-Sellin R, Lee JE, Perrier ND, Grubbs EG. Impact and Timing of Bilateral Adrenalectomy for Refractory ACTH-Dependent Cushing's Syndrome, AAES 39th Annual Meeting, 2013.
2. Lee S, Skelton TS, Zheng F, Schwartz KA, Perrier ND, Lee JE, Bassett RL, Ahmaed S, Krishnamurthy S, Busaidy NL, Grubbs EG. The Biopsy-Proven Benign Thyroid Nodule: Is Long-Term Follow-Up Necessary?. Western Surgical Association Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, 2012.
3. Morris LF, Waguespack SG, Edeiken-Monroe BS, Rich TA, Warneke CL, Evans DB, Perrier ND, Grubbs EG. Ultrasonography should not guide the timing of thyroidectomy in pediatric patients diagnosed with multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome 2A through genetic screening. Society of Surgical Oncology 65th Annual Cancer Symposium, Orlando, Florida, 2012.
4. Dickson PV, Rich TA, Xing Y, Cote CJ, Wang H, Perrier ND, Evans DB, Lee JE, Grubbs EG. Achieving eugastrinemia in MEN1 patients: Both duodenal inspection and formal lymph node dissection are important. AAES 32nd Annual Meeting, 2011.
5. Grubbs EG, Waguespack SG, Rich TA, Xing Y, Ying AK, Evans DB, Lee JE, Perrier ND. Do the recent American Thyroid Association Guidelines accurately guide the timing of prophylactic thyroidectomy in MEN2A?. AAES 32nd Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2010.
6. Grubbs EG, Xing Y, Callender GG, Perrier ND, Evans DB, Phan AT, Lee JE. Comparison of adrenal cortical carcinoma (ACC) staging systems by combined large database analysis. 2009 IAES Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 2009.
7. Grubbs EG, Callender GG, Perrier ND, Phan AT, Lee JE. Mitotane for treatment of advanced adrenal cortical carcinoma(ACC): relationship of drug level and length of treatment to disease progression. 2009 IAES Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 2009.
8. Grubbs EG, Marshall CL, Evans DB, Lee JE, Perrier ND, Edeiken BS. Routine Preoperative Ultrasound for Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Long-Term Results in 236 PATIENTS. AAES 30th Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisonsin, 2009.
9. Grubbs EG, Mittendorf EA, Phan AT, Perrier ND, Evans DB, Callender GG, Xing Y, Lee JE. Recurrence of Adrenocortical Carcinoma Following Resection: Surgery Alone can Achieve Results Equal to Surgery Plus Mitotane. Society of Surgical Oncology, 62nd Annual Cancer Symposium, 2009.
10. Grubbs EG, Mittendorf EA, Evans DB, Perrier ND, Lee JE. Gamma Probe Identification of Normal Parathyroid glands During Central Neck Surgery Can Facilitate Parathyroid Preservation. Am J Surg 196(6):931-5; discussion 935-6, 2008. PMID: 19095112.
11. Grubbs EG, Lee JE, Rafeeq S, Gagel RF, Jimenez C, Feng L, Perrier ND. Preoperative Vitamin D (VitD) Replacement Therapy in Primary Hyperparathyroidism (PHPT): Safe but Beneficial?. AAES 29th Annual Meeting, Monterey, California, 2008.
12. Grubbs EG, Mittendorf EA, Evans DB, Perrier ND, Lee JE. Intraoperative Gamma Probe Identification of Normal Parathyroid Glands During Central Neck Surgery. Montreal, CA 196(6):931-936, 2008.
13. Grubbs EG, Gantela S, Morris GS, Perrier, ND. Parathyroidectomy Improves Functional Capacity in Geriatric Patients (pts) with Seemingly "Asymptomatic" Primary Hyperparathyroidism. Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2008.
14. Grubbs EG, Lee JE, Evans DB, Nunez RF, Perrier ND. SPECT/CT is useful in planning incision site for minimally invasive parathyroidectomies (MIP) in treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons, 2008.
15. Grubbs EG, Bentley R, Pruitt SK. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer: How Many Nodes Need to be Removed?. Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2007.

Book Chapters

1. Cote GJ, Grubbs EG, Hofmann MC. Thyroid C-Cell Biology and Oncogenic Transformation. In: Recent Results Cancer Res. Springer, 1-39, 2015.
2. Grubbs EG, Massey BL, Evans DB, Wang TS. Medullary thyroid carcinoma. In: Sataloff’s Comprehensive Textbook of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 2014.
3. Waguespack SG, Grubbs EG, Mimi HI. Practical Application in Adult Patient Care. In: Clinical Genomics, 2013.

Letters to the Editor

1. Lee JE, Grubbs EG. Observations on the ENSAT Staging System. Cancer, 2011.