By

Prof. Daniel Oertli, M.D., Division of General Surgery , Department of Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Robert Udelsman, M.D., M.B.A. , Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
Jörg Kühn, Heuchelheim-Klingen, Germany

This book is a unique in-depth and comprehensive reference that covers all surgically relevant thyroid and parathyroid diseases and presents the latest information on their management. International authorities discuss operative techniques and treatments in detail and explain the rationales for their favored approaches. The topics of this second edition include the description of surgically relevant pathologies, preoperative surgical evaluation, decision making, and operative strategies for the various thyroid and parathyroid diseases. In addition, experts present the molecular basis for thyroid neoplasia, review the current understanding of the genetics of inherited thyroid and parathyroid diseases, and discuss the management of recurrent and locally invasive thyroid cancer. Evolving modern operative techniques such as neuromonitoring and minimally invasive (videoscopic) approaches to the thyroid and parathyroids are also covered

Key Features

A unique in-depth and comprehensive reference that presents the latest information on all surgically relevant thyroid and parathyroid diseases
Describes preoperative surgical evaluation, decision making, and operative strategies
Discusses evolving modern operative techniques such as neuromonitoring and minimally invasive (videoscopic) approaches Written by international authorities