Do you regularly perform thyroid surgery?
Are you looking for a tool that guides you through best surgical practice and successful avoidance of complications?
Whether you are an endocrine surgeon, general surgeon or otolaryngologist, you will find this highly practical, full colour multimedia tool an essential guide to help perfect your surgical techniques and overcome the various complications that can arise when performing surgery of the thyroid.
Packed full of useful tips and tricks, and well illustrated with over 130 figures, it covers the following key areas:
Best practices in thyroid surgery
Intraoperative complications both common and rare cases
Postoperative complications including those needing urgent treatment
Complications following minimally invasive and robotic techniques
Thyroid hormone replacement and quality of life after thyroid surgery.
Included also are 20 high resolution, step-by-step surgical videos of thyroid surgery, giving you outstanding visual coverage of the experts in action.
Edited by an expert international editor team from the US and Europe, Thyroid Surgery: Preventing and Managing Complications perfectly meets all of your clinical needs.
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| Foreword |
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| Preface |
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| About the companion website |
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Part I Epidemiology and Acceptable Rates of Complications Following Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery |
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1 Incidence of Morbidity Following Thyroid Surgery: Acceptable Morbidity Rates |
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2 Medical Malpractice and Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands |
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3 Extent of Thyroidectomy and Incidence of Morbidity: Risk-appropriate Treatment |
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4 Thyroid Surgery in Paediatric Patients |
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Part II Best Practices in Thyroid Surgery |
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5 How to Perform a `Safe' Thyroidectomy: `Tips and Tricks' |
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6 Minimally Invasive Video-assisted Thyroidectomy |
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7 Robotic Thyroid Surgery |
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8 Extensive Surgery for Thyroid Cancer: Central Neck Dissection |
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9 Extensive Surgery for Thyroid Cancer: Lateral Neck Dissection |
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10 Surgery for Retrosternal/Upper Mediastinal Thyroid/Parathyroid Disease |
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11 Reoperative Thyroid Surgery |
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12 How to Use Energy Devices and their Potential Hazards |
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Part III Intraoperative Complications: The `Classic' Issues |
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13 The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve |
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14 The Superior Laryngeal Nerve |
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15 The Parathyroid Glands in Thyroid Surgery |
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16 Cosmetic Complications |
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Part IV Intraoperative Complications: The Rare Ones |
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17 Management and Prevention of Laryngotracheal and Oesophageal Injuries in-Thyroid Surgery |
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18 Injury of the Major Vessels |
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Lourdes Quintanilla-Dieck |
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19 Lesions Following Lateral Neck Dissection: Phrenic, Vagus and Accessory Nerve Injury, and Chyle Leak |
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20 Amiodarone-induced Thyrotoxicosis and Thyroid Storm |
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Part V Postoperative Complications Requiring Urgent Treatment |
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21 Respiratory Failure Following Extubation |
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22 Postoperative Bleeding |
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23 The Occurrence and Management of Pneumothorax in Thyroid Surgery |
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Part VI Postoperative Complications |
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24 The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve |
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26 The Rare Ones: Horner's Syndrome, Complications from Surgical Positioning and Post-sternotomy Complications |
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27 Late Complications of Thyroid Surgery |
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249 | (8) |
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28 Post-thyroidectomy Distress: Voice and Swallowing Impairment Following Thyroidectomy |
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Part VII New Issues: Complications Following Minimally Invasive and Robotic Techniques |
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29 Minimally Invasive Techniques Performed Through the Neck Access |
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30 Minimally Invasive Techniques Performed Through Other Accesses |
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31 Complications of Robotic Thyroidectomy |
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Part VIII Latrogenic Hypothyroidism, Metabolic Effects of Post-thyroidectomy Thyroid Hormone Replacement, and Quality of Life after Thyroid Surgery |
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32 Iatrogenic Hypothyroidism and Its Sequelae |
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33 Quality of Life after Thyroid Surgery |
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305 | (6) |
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EDITED BY
Paolo Miccoli, MD, Professor of Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
David J. Terris, MD, FACS, Porubsky Professor and Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA, USA
Michele N. Minuto, MD, PhD, Department of Surgical Sciences (DISC), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Melanie W. Seybt, Columbia Ear, Nose and Throat Associates, Columbia, SC, USA
