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 Diagnosing or excluding endocrine disorders relies on measuring the concentration of hormones and metabolites

 Immunoassays provide accurate, reliable laboratory measurement of many hormones and metabolites

 Techniques involving mass spectrometry are increasingly being used to measure hormones and metabolites

 Cellular and molecular biology can increasingly provide patient‐specific diagnoses of congenital disorders or endocrine neoplasia syndromes; this information can predict and influence patient outcome and management

 Imaging investigations localize endocrine disorders and assist surgical intervention

 ‘Incidentalomas’ are common and conscientious effort is needed to correlate a biochemical endocrine abnormality to a tumour identified on imaging