Controversies in Thyroid Surgery (eBook)

John B. Hanks, MDDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of Virginia Charlottesville, VAUSAWilliam Inabnett, III. MD FACSDepartment of SurgeryMount Sinai Beth Israel Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NYUSA

Part A: General Topics1. Controversies in the Management of Nodular Thyroid Disease2. The Use of Ultrasound in the Management of Thyroid Disorders3. Pre and Post Thyroidectomy Voice Assessment 4. Intraoperative Neuro-monitoring of the Laryngeal Nerves During Thyroidectomy5. 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 SurgeryPart B: Cancer Topics10. Optimal Treatment for Papillary Microcarcinoma11. Molecular Profiles and the "Indeterminate" Thyroid Nodule12. Controversies in the Surgical Management of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma13. Central Lymph Node Dissection for Well-Differentiated Cancer14. The Role of Risk Stratification in the Treatment of Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer15. Imaging for Preoperative Assessment and Staging of Thyroid Cancer16. Anaplastic Cancer and Rare Forms of Cancer Affecting the Thyroid17. The Role of Targeting Therapies or Non-Surgical Treatment of Thyroid Malignancies: Is Surgery Being Replaced?