Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

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 and Radioiodine Therapy.- Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules.-Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of the Tyroid.- Techniques of Thyroidectomy.- Surgery of the Solitary Thyroid Nodules.- Modified Radical Neck Dissection.- Thyroid Pathology.- Surgery of Medullary Thyroid Cancer.- Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma.- Thyroid Lymphoma and other Metastatic Lesions.- Multinodal and Retrosternal Goiter.- Surgery for Hyperthyroidism.- Thyroiditis.- Complications in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery.- Outcome Analysis on Thyroid Surgery.- Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Parathyroid Glands and Preoperative Evaluation.- Preoperative Localization Tests.- Conventional Surgical Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism.- Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy.- Endoscopic Parathyroidectomy.- Multiglandular Parathyroid Disease and MEN Syndromes.- Secondary and Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism.- Parathyroid Carcinoma.- Reoperative Parathyroid Surgery.- Outcome Analysis in Parathyroid Surgery.- Index.