Thyroid Surgery. Preventing and Managing Complications

Description

This highly practical, full color teaching tool is focused on best surgical practice in thyroid surgery, including the key issue of prevention and management of surgical complications. An accompanying website contains twenty step-by-step surgical videos of thyroid surgery in action. Several chapters are included on brand new surgical techniques, such as robotic and image-localized surgery.

Table of contents

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
About the companion website

Part I Epidemiology and Acceptable Rates of Complications Following Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery

• 1 Incidence of Morbidity Following Thyroid Surgery: Acceptable Morbidity Rates, 3
  Paolo Miccoli, Michele N. Minuto and Mario Miccoli
• 2 Medical Malpractice and Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands, 13
  Daniel D. Lydiatt and Robert Lindau
• 3 Extent of Thyroidectomy and Incidence of Morbidity: Risk-appropriate Treatment, 19
  Dana M. Hartl and Martin Schlumberger
• 4 Thyroid Surgery in Paediatric Patients, 33
  Scott A. Rivkees, Christopher K. Breuer and Robert Udelsman

Part II Best Practices in Thyroid Surgery

• 5 How to Perform a 'Safe' Thyroidectomy: 'Tips and Tricks', 45
  Elliot J. Mitmaker and Quan-Yang Duh
• 6 Minimally Invasive Video-assisted Thyroidectomy, 53
  Paolo Miccoli, Michele N. Minuto and Piero Berti
• 7 Robotic Thyroid Surgery, 61
  Michael C. Singer and David J. Terris
• 8 Extensive Surgery for Thyroid Cancer: Central Neck Dissection, 67
  Emad H. Kandil, Salem I. Noureldine and Ralph P. Tufano
• 9 Extensive Surgery for Thyroid Cancer: Lateral Neck Dissection, 79
  Dana M. Hartl, Haïtham Mirghani and Daniel F. Brasnu
• 10 Surgery for Retrosternal/Upper Mediastinal Thyroid/Parathyroid Disease, 93
  Jeffrey J. Houlton and David L. Steward
• 11 Reoperative Thyroid Surgery, 105
  N. Gopalakrishna Iyer and Ashok R. Shaha
• 12 How to Use Energy Devices and their Potential Hazards, 111
  Paolo Miccoli and Michele N. Minuto

Part III Intraoperative Complications: The 'Classic' Issues

• 13 The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, 119
  David Goldenberg and Gregory W. Randolph
• 14 The Superior Laryngeal Nerve, 129
  Tammy M. Holm and Sara I. Pai
• 15 The Parathyroid Glands in Thyroid Surgery, 137
  Maisie Shindo
• 16 Cosmetic Complications, 145
  Melanie W. Seybt and David J. Terris

Part IV Intraoperative Complications: The Rare Ones

• 17 Management and Prevention of Laryngotracheal and Oesophageal Injuries in Thyroid Surgery, 153
  Eran E. Alon and Mark L. Urken
• 18 Injury of the Major Vessels, 161
  Lourdes Quintanilla-Dieck and Neil D. Gross
• 19 Lesions Following Lateral Neck Dissection: Phrenic, Vagus and Accessory Nerve Injury, and Chyle Leak, 169
  Clive S. Grant
• 20 Amiodarone-induced Thyrotoxicosis and Thyroid Storm, 179
  Fausto Bogazzi, Luca Tomisti, Piero Berti and Enio Martino

Part V Postoperative Complications Requiring Urgent Treatment

• 21 Respiratory Failure Following Extubation, 191
  Moran Amit and Dan M. Fliss
• 22 Postoperative Bleeding, 199
  Richelle T. Williams and Peter Angelos
• 23 The Occurrence and Management of Pneumothorax in Thyroid Surgery, 209
  Kamran Samakar, Jason Wallen and Alfred Simental

Part VI Postoperative Complications

• 24 The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, 221
  Michele P. Morrison and Gregory N. Postma
• 25 The Parathyroids, 227
  Claudio Marcocci and Luisella Cianferotti
• 26 The Rare Ones: Horner's Syndrome, Complications from Surgical Positioning and Post-sternotomy Complications, 237
  Lukas H. Kus and Jeremy L. Freeman
• 27 Late Complications of Thyroid Surgery, 249
  Dennis R. Maceri
• 28 Post-thyroidectomy Distress: Voice and Swallowing Impairment Following Thyroidectomy, 257
  Mira Milas and Zvonimir Milas

Part VII New Issues: Complications Following Minimally Invasive and Robotic Techniques

• 29 Minimally Invasive Techniques Performed Through the Neck Access, 271
  Paolo Miccoli, Michele N. Minuto and Valeria Matteucci
• 30 Minimally Invasive Techniques Performed Through Other Accesses, 275
  Kee-Hyun Nam and William B. Inabnet III
• 31 Complications of Robotic Thyroidectomy, 285
  David J. Terris and Michael C. Singer

Part VIII Iatrogenic Hypothyroidism, Metabolic Effects of Post-thyroidectomy Thyroid Hormone Replacement, and Quality of Life after Thyroid Surgery

• 32 Iatrogenic Hypothyroidism and Its Sequelae, 293
  Paolo Vitti and Francesco Latrofa
• 33 Quality of Life after Thyroid Surgery, 305
  Alessandro Antonelli and Poupak Fallahi

Index, 311