Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

Daniel Oertli, MD, PhD, is Professor of Surgery at the University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland and author of many publications in the field of endocrine surgery, visceral surgery, oncological surgery, surgery of the female breast and general surgery. Robert Udelsman, MD, M.B.A., F.A.C.S. is Lampman Memorial Professor of Surgery and Oncology, he is Chairman of the Department of Surgery; Chief at the Surgery Servoce at Yale-New Haven Hospital. His surgical specialty is Endocrine Surgery and Surgical Oncology. He holds a Board Certificaiton of the American Board of Surgery,received his medical education at Lafayette College, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. He is a member of various Societies and Reviewer of many international journals.

From the Content: History of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery.- Embryology and Surgical Anatomy of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands.- Evaluation of Hyperthyroidism and Hyperthyroid Goiter.- Diagnostic Imaging of the Thyroid Gland.- Evaluation of Thyroid Nodes.- Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology.- Molecular Diagnostic with FNA.- Benign Thyroid Goiter.- Surgery of Hyperthyroidims.- Thyroiditis.- Technique of Thyroidectomy.- Minimally Invasive Techniques in Thyroid Surgery.- Monitoring in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery - An Evidence-Based Balanced Approach.- Complications in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery.- Surgery for Solitary Thyroid Nodule Including Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.- Central Neck Dissection.- Modified Radical Neck Dissection.- Surgery for Medullary Thyroid Cancer.- Thyroid Lymphoma and Metastatic Lesions to the Thyroid.- Thyroid Pathology.- Radioactive Therapy and External Radiotherapy for Thyroid Cancer.- etc.