Video 36.1 Introduction to Chapter 36, Surgical Anatomy and Monitoring of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve. Video 36.2 Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring. Video 36.3 Continuous Vagal Nerve Monitoring. Introduction Galen, in the second century, discovered and named the recurrent laryngeal nerve…
Video 35.1 Introduction to [CR] , Surgical Anatomy and Monitoring of the Superior Laryngeal Nerve. Video 35.2 Superior Laryngeal Nerve Anatomy and Monitoring. Video 35.3 Stimulation of the Right-Sided External Branch of the Superior Laryngeal Nerve During Thyroidectomy. The technical…
Video 34.1 Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy. This chapter contains additional online-only content, including exclusive video, available on expertconsult.com . Introduction The conventional surgery for neck endocrine diseases is generally performed using traditional Kocher incision, which is characterized by a standard…
Video 33.1 Introduction to [CR] , Transoral Thyroidectomy. Video 33.2 Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach. History of Transoral Thyroidectomy Since Kocher introduced the modern era of thyroid surgery well over a century ago, the surgical approach has remained virtually unchanged:…
Video 32.1 Transaxillary Robotic Thyroidectomy Video 32.2 Postauricular Robotic Thyroidectomy Introduction Advances in surgical technology have enabled surgeons to develop multiple minimally invasive and remote access approaches to the thyroid gland. In the early 2000s, Miccoli introduced the minimally invasive…
Video 31.1 Basic Thyroid Surgical Maneuvers. Video 31.2 Advanced Thyroid Cancer Surgery. Video 31.3 Total Thyroidectomy: Autofluorescence and Parathyroid Angiography. Introduction There are a number of chapters in this text devoted to specific thyroid surgical approaches, ranging from minimally invasive…
Introduction In 1955, Robinson and Orr published the first report of isolated familial papillary thyroid cancer affecting 24-year-old identical twins. Twenty years later, Nĕmec and colleagues described differentiated thyroid cancer without environmental exposures in a mother and son. Since that…
Video 29.1 Introduction to Chapter 29, Pediatric Thyroid Cancer. Introduction Much like many childhood diseases, there are major differences in the diagnosis and management of pediatric patients with thyroid cancers compared with adults. This chapter highlights some of those differences…
Introduction Thyroid cancer incidence is rising rapidly, mostly due to increasing rates of incidentally detected papillary microcarcinoma. Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC), however, is a rare form of undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma. Even though the incidence for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is…
Introduction As early as the beginning of the 20th century, medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) was noted as a distinct disease entity within the broad spectrum of malignant thyroid tumors. By the first half of the century, the peculiar tumor biology…