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An outstanding reference for performing successful thyroid operations
Atlas of Thyroid Surgery: Principles, Practice, and Clinical Cases is a concise guide for the surgical management of thyroid disease.
Highlights:
Descriptions of endocrine pathophysiology and the pathogenesis of nodular goiter and thyroid neoplasms
Thorough discussion of the capsular dissection technique and its essential advantages as a minimally invasive approach with low morbidity
Numerous clinical cases with step-by-step demonstrations of surgical procedures and concise comments on management, helping clinicians prepare for range of scenarios encountered in everyday practice
More than 100 clear line drawings and full-color photographs that illustrate key concepts
Surgical videos on an accompanying DVD present detailed surgical technique in five clinical cases with cross references to the text
Atlas of Thyroid Surgery: Principles, Practice, and Clinical Cases is a superb guide for general surgeons and endocrine and ENT surgeons operating on the thyroid. Endocrinologists, oncologists, pathologists, and residents in these specialties will also greatly benefit from the wealth of information provided in the text.
List of contents
Part I. Surgical Anatomy; Surgical Technique; 1. Notes on Positioning the Patient; 2. Basic Surgical Anatomy; 3. Incisions, Thyroid Exposure; 4. Capsular Dissection; 5. Thyroid Hilus: Suspensory Ligament of Berry; Inferior (Recurrent) Laryngeal Nerve; Parathyroids; Posterior Thyroid Process (Tubercle of Zuckerkandl); 6. Further Case Records with Demonstrations of the Technique of Capsular Dissection; PART II. Thyroid Nodules - Modern Concepts; Follicular Neoplasia. Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma (FTC); 7. Basic Remarks; 8. Proliferation, Clonality, and Autonomy of Thyroid Lesions [45]; 9. Molecular Genetic Diagnosis. Gene Profiling; 10. Follicular Neoplasia; 11. Thyroid Nodules in Surgical Practice. Strategy of Adequate Excision; 12. Case Records: Hyperplastic and Neoplastic Nodules; Functional Autonomy; Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma (FTC); 13. Embryological Thyroid Development and Developmental Anomalies: Clinical Aspects; 14. Total Thyroidectomy for Benign Nodular Goiter; 15. Longstanding Solitary Nodule; 16. Further Clinical Considerations; 17. Nodules in Graves' Disease; 18. Nodules in Chronic Autoimmune Thyroiditis Hashimoto (Hashimoto's Disease, Lymphocytic Thyroiditis); Part III Malignant Tumors; 19. Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC); 20. Anaplastic (Undifferentiated) Thyroid Carcinoma; 21. Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (C-Cell Carcinoma).
About the author
Prof. Ernst Gemsenjäger, geboren 1931, studierte Medizin in Lausanne, Paris, Wien und Bern, wo er 1958 promovierte. Während seiner Tätigkeit als Leitender Arzt am St. Claraspital, Basel, und als Chefarzt der chirurgischen Klinik Spital Neumünster, Zollikerberg/ZH, spezialisierte er sich in Bauch- und endokriner Chirurgie. Er habilitierte sich 1976. Zahlreiche Publikationen berichten über kolorektale und endokrine Chirurgie.
Summary
An outstanding reference for performing successful thyroid operations
Atlas of Thyroid Surgery: Principles, Practice, and Clinical Cases is a concise guide for the surgical management of thyroid disease.
Highlights:
Descriptions of endocrine pathophysiology and the pathogenesis of nodular goiter and thyroid neoplasms
Thorough discussion of the capsular dissection technique and its essential advantages as a minimally invasive approach with low morbidity
Numerous clinical cases with step-by-step demonstrations of surgical procedures and concise comments on management, helping clinicians prepare for range of scenarios encountered in everyday practice
More than 100 clear line drawings and full-color photographs that illustrate key concepts
Surgical videos on an accompanying DVD present detailed surgical technique in five clinical cases with cross references to the text
Atlas of Thyroid Surgery: Principles, Practice, and Clinical Cases is a superb guide for general surgeons and endocrine and ENT surgeons operating on the thyroid. Endocrinologists, oncologists, pathologists, and residents in these specialties will also greatly benefit from the wealth of information provided in the text.
