Main description:

* includes a broad range of paper subjects of interest/educational importance to thyroid/parathyroid surgeons andsurgical trainees
* focuses on high impact papers
* papers reviewed by global specialists

Contents:

Part One: Thyroid

Section One: Thyroid Nodule Evaluation & Treatment

Chapter One: Ultrasound

Review by: Julia E. Noel, Lisa A. Orloff

Chapter 2: Cytology

Review by: William G Albergotti, Emad Al Haj Ali

Chapter 3: Molecular Diagnostics

Review By: Todd McMullen

Chapter 4: Ablation

Review By: Hannah Nieto,Neil Sharma

Section Two: Thyroidectomy

Chapter 5: Surgeon Volume

Review by: Akie Watanabe, Sam M. Wiseman

Chapter 6: Thyroidectomy: Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring

Review by: Marika D. Russell, Rick Schneider, Che-Wei Wu, Amr H. Abdelhamid, Gregory W. Randolph

Chapter 7: Superior Laryngeal Nerve Management.

Review by Thomas D. Milner, Eitan Prisman

Chapter 8: Thyroidectomy: Vessel Sealing Devices

Review by Matthew Cherko, Ram Moorthy

Chapter 9: Thyroidectomy: Parathyroid Autofluorescence

Review by: Paulina Kuczma, Marco Demarchi, Frederic Triponez

Chapter 10: Remote Access Thyroidectomy

Review by: Maureen D. Moore, Thomas J. Fahey

Chapter 11: Thyroidectomy: Robotic

Review by: Mahmoud Omar, Mohamed Aboueisha, Mohamed Shama, Emad Kandil

Chapter 12: Graves' Disease

Review by: Rajam Raghunathan, Jacques How, Roger Tabah, Elliot Mitmaker,

Chapter 13: Goiter

Chapter Authors: Lucinda Duncan-Were, Carla Pajak

Chapter 14: Complications

Review By: Sendhil Rajan, Muhammad Shakeel, Sebastian Aspinall

Chapter 15: Hypoparathyroidism

Review by: Richard D. Bavier, David Goldenberg

Chapter 16: Parathyroid Autotransplantation

Review by: Helen E Doran

Section Three - Thyroid Cancer

Chapter 17: Epidemiology

Review by: Charles Meltzer

Chapter 18: NIFTP

Review by Tal Yalon,, Haggi Mazeh,

Chapter 19: Microcarcinoma

Review by Timothy M. Ullmann,Quan-Yang Duh

Chapter 20: Risk Stratification

Review by: Nancy L. Cho, Gerard M. Doherty

Chapter 21:Staging

Review by: Bianka Saravana-Bawan, Jesse D Pasternak

Chapter 22: Extent of Thyroidectomy

Review by: Pavithran Maniam, Iain J. Nixon

Chapter 23: Central Neck Dissection

Review by:

Shayanne A. Lajud, Jeremy L. Freeman

Chapter 24: Recurrent Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Review by:

Agamemnon Pericleous, Samuel Backman, Matilda Anneback, Neil Tolley

Chapter 25: Recombinant TSH/Adjuvant Radioactive Iodine Therapy

Review by: Daegan Sit, Jonn Wu, Sarah Hamilton

Chapter 26: Targeted Therapy

Review by: Arif Adnan Shaukat

Chapter 27: Anaplastic Carcinoma

Review by: Omar Hilmi, Miss Lucy Li

Chapter 28: Medullary Carcinoma

Review by Aleix Rovira, Paul V Carroll, Ricard Simo

Chapter 29: Medullary Carcinoma: MEN-2

Review by: Yi Sia, Radu Mihai

Chapter 30: Pediatric Differentiated Carcinoma

Review by: Frances T. Lee, Xavier M. Keutgen, Peter Angelos

Part Two: Parathyroid

Section Four: Primary Hyperparathyroidism - Preoperative

Chapter 31: Epidemiology

Review by: Brendan C. Stack Jr.

Chapter 32: Natural History of Untreated Disease

Review by: Fares Benmiloud

Chapter 33: Surgical Indications

Review by: Peter Truran

Chapter 34: Preoperative Localisation

Review by: Saba P Balasubramanian

Section Five: Primary Hyperparathyroidism - Parathyroidectomy

Chapter 35: Surgeon Volume

Review by: Rongzhi Wang, Herbert Chen

Chapter 36: Bilateral Operation

Reviewed by: Fiona C Eatock, Ioan Titus Cvasciuc,

Chapter 37: Focused Operation

Review by: Bianka Saravana-Bawan, Adrienne Melck

Chapter 38: Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Intraoperative PTH Measurement

Review By: Hiba Fatayer, Susannah Shore

Chapter 39: Remote access Operation

Review By: Priscilla Procopio, Pennestri Francesco, Marco Raffaelli

Chapter 40: Parathyroid Cryopreservation

Review by: Abby Gross, Eren Berber

Chapter 41: Autofluorescence

Review by: John Phay

Chapter 42: Normocalcemic Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Samir Damji, Adrian Harvey

Chapter 43: Normohormonal Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Mechteld C de Jong, Sheila M Fraser

Chapter 44: Recurrent Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Matilda Anneback, F. Fausto Palazzo

Chapter 45: Surgical Complications

Review by: Neil Patel, Michael Stechman,

Chapter 46: MEN1- Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: David Leong, Stan Sidhu

Chapter 47: MEN-2 - Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Mechteld C de Jong, Rajeev Parameswaran

Section Six: Secindary Hyperparathyroidism

Chapter 48: Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Hadiza S Kazaure, Julie Ann Sosa

Section Seven: Tertiary Hyperparathroidism

Chapter 49: Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Thomas Burton, Goswin Meyer- Rochow

Section Eight: Parathyroid Carcinoma

Chapter 50: Parathyroid Carcinoma

Review by: Gaurav Agarwal, Dileep Ramesh Hoysal