"This slender, multiauthored monograph addresses a series of controversial topics in thyroid surgery. The topics are well chosen and algorithms, tables, and color photographs are used throughout to illustrate key points. ... Endocrine surgeons, endocrinologists, and head and neck surgeons will find this of interest. ... provide a thoroughly up-to-date discussion of controversial topics in the field." (Carol Scott-Conner, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2016)
Part A: General Topics
1. Controversies in the Management of Nodular Thyroid Disease
2. The Use of Ultrasound in the Management of Thyroid Disorders
3. Pre and Post Thyroidectomy Voice Assessment
4. Intraoperative Neuro-monitoring of the Laryngeal Nerves During Thyroidectomy
5. Who Should Do Thyroid Surgery?
6. Ambulatory Thyroid Surgery-Is This the Way of the Future?
7. Robotic Thyroidectomy: Is There Still A Role?
8. Graves' Disease-What is the Role and Timing of Surgery?
9. Vocal Fold Paralysis and Thyroid Surgery
Part B: Cancer Topics
10. Optimal Treatment for Papillary Microcarcinoma
11. Molecular Profiles and the "Indeterminate" Thyroid Nodule
12. Controversies in the Surgical Management of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
13. Central Lymph Node Dissection for Well-Differentiated Cancer
14. The Role of Risk Stratification in the Treatment of Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
15. Imaging for Preoperative Assessment and Staging of Thyroid Cancer
16. Anaplastic Cancer and Rare Forms of Cancer Affecting the Thyroid
17. The Role of Targeting Therapies or Non-Surgical Treatment of Thyroid Malignancies: Is Surgery Being Replaced?
John B. Hanks, MD
Department of Surgery
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
USA
William Inabnett, III. MD FACS
Department of Surgery
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY
USA
This text encompasses many different thyroid diagnoses as well as several specialties of practicing surgeons in the United States. Over the last ten years many advances have been made in preoperative assessment including imaging and diagnostic techniques, operative approaches including “minimally invasive” and robotic surgery, and post-operative care. This volume also explores some of the controversies that arise as the result of these new findings and applications. The book is divided into two categories of benign diagnosis and cancer topics. Both of these areas lend themselves to separate analysis of specific problems in the areas mentioned above. The text reviews recent data about advances in diagnostic techniques as well as outcomes with specific regards to the newer operative techniques in thyroid surgery.
Controversies in Thyroid Surgery will serve as a resource for medical and surgical colleagues involved in the treatment of a wide variety of thyroid diseases.>