Chapter 64 Radio-Guided Parathyroid Exploration Joel T. Adler, Brendan C. Stack, Jr., Herbert Chen Introduction Contemporary parathyroid operations are successful: surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism has evolved to a procedure with…
Chapter 31 Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy Paolo Miccoli, Gabriele Materazzi Introduction Please go to expertconsult.com to view related video Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy. The first endoscopic procedures proposed to reduce…
Chapter 62 Local Anesthesia for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Jason D. Prescott, Robert Udelsman Regional Anesthesia for Thyroid Surgery Anesthesia for thyroid surgery was first described in 1849 by the…
Chapter 41 Transoral Resection of Parapharyngeal and Retropharyngeal Thyroid Carcinoma Metastases Michael E. Kupferman, Gary L. Clayman Introduction Metastases from well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC) to the retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal lymph…
Chapter 48 Endocrine Quality Registers Surgical Outcome Measurement David M. Scott-Coombes, Anders O.J. Bergenfelz Introduction It is a fundamental aspect of a surgeon’s practice that he or she has an…
Chapter 55 Medical Treatment for Metastatic Thyroid Cancer Yariv Houvras, Manisha H. Shah Introduction Thyroid cancer comprises a diverse range of histologic and clinical entities encompassing well-differentiated papillary and follicular…
Chapter 63 Intraoperative PTH Monitoring during Parathyroid Surgery Denise Carneiro-Pla, Phillip K. Pellitteri Introduction Intraoperative parathyroid hormone (PTH) monitoring has been used since the 1990s to guide the excision of…
Chapter 35 Surgery for Locally Advanced Thyroid Cancer Trachea Ashok R. Shaha, Jatin P. Shah Please go to expertconsult.com to view related video Tracheal Resection for Locally Advanced Carcinoma of…
Chapter 54 Ablative Percutaneous Ultrasound-Guided Ethanol Injection for Neck Nodal Metastases in Papillary and Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Ian D. Hay Neck Nodal Metastases in Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma Thyroid cancer…
Chapter 59 Standard Bilateral Parathyroid Exploration Allan E. Siperstein, Antonia E. Stephen, Mira Milas Modern management of parathyroid disease has evolved with the influence of several fundamentally new and important…
