Video 40.1 Introduction to Chapter 40, Incisions in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. Introduction Among endocrine surgeries, thyroidectomy remains a demanding procedure because of the specific patient population, the decreasing surgical morbidity, and increasing patient expectations. Patients now seek safe surgery…
Video 39.1 Lateral Neck Dissection for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. The incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing over the past few decades, and although the majority of cases are localized to the thyroid, the number of patients with lateral neck…
Video 38.1 Introduction to Chapter 38, Central Neck Dissection: Indications and Technique. Video 38.2 Central Compartment Dissection. Introduction Central lymph node metastasis is very common in differentiated thyroid cancers, especially in papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs). Although therapeutic central neck dissection…
Video 37.1 Tracheal Resection for Locally Advanced Carcinoma of the Thyroid Gland. Invasive thyroid cancer is defined as a disease that extends outside of the thyroid gland or outside the capsule of metastatic nodes to involve adjacent structures. Several decades…
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…