Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands (eBook)

Acknowledgement 5
Preface 6
Table of Contents 7
List of Contributors 9
1 History of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 14
2 Embryology and Surgical Anatomy of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands 26
3 Evaluation of Hyperthyroidism and Hyperthyroid Goiter 34
4 Diagnostic Imaging of the Thyroid and Radioiodine Therapy 43
5 Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules 57
6 Fine-needle Aspiration Cytology of the Thyroid 73
7 Technique of Thyroidectomy 93
8 Surgery for the Solitary Thyroid Nodule 102
9 Modified Radical Neck Dissection 112
10 Thyroid Pathology 119
11 Surgery for Medullary Thyroid Cancer 156
12 Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma 169
13 Thyroid Lymphoma and Other Metastatic Lesions 179
14 Multinodular and Retrosternal Goiter 186
15 Surgery for Hyperthyroidism 198
16 Thyroiditis 214
17 Complications in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery 223
18 Outcomes Analysis in Thyroid Surgery: A Review of Patient and Provider Predictors 231
19 Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Parathyroid Glands and Preoperative Evaluation 240
20 Parathyroid Imaging 249
21 Conventional Surgical Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism 264
22 Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy 271
23 Endoscopic Parathyroidectomy 278
24 Multiglandular Parathyroid Disease and MEN Syndromes 285
25 Pathophysiology and Treatment of Secondary and Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism 293
26 Parathyroid Carcinoma 311
27 Reoperative Parathyroid Surgery 326
28 Outcomes Analysis in Parathyroid Surgery 337
Subject Index 347