Thyroid Nodules and Cancer. A Simplified Case-Oriented Approach

Preface 

Chapter 1. Management of Incidentally Discovered Subcentimeter Suspicious Thyroid Nodules => pp. 1-16 
(Edmund Pribitkin, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 2. The “Indeterminate” Thyroid FNA-What Additional Genomic Testing can Help Differentiate Malignancy Risk? => pp. 17-24 
(Intekhab Ahmed, Division of Endocrinology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 3. Minimally Invasive Follicular Thyroid Cancer => pp. 25-34 
(Kevin Furlong, Division of Endocrinology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 4. Follicular Variant Papillary Cancer-Some Variants are now Reclassified as “Vanishing Thyroid Cancer” Syndrome (Non-Invasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features=NIFTP)! => pp. 35-38 
(Kevin Furlong, Division of Endocrinology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 5. Follicular Thyroid Cancer with Hematogenous Osseous Metastasis => pp. 39-50 
(Intekhab Ahmed, Division of Endocrinology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 6. Evaluation and Management of Medullary Thyroid Cancer => pp. 51-64 
(Serge Jabbour, Division of Endocrinology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 7. Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Lymphoma => pp. 65-70 
(Serge Jabbour, Division of Endocrinology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 8. Quality of Life Changes Relevant to Extent of Thyroid Surgery => pp. 71-80 
(Fatima Z. Syed, Division of Endocrinology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 9. Familial Non-Medullary Follicular-Derived Thyroid Cancer => pp. 81-86 
(Melinda Ukrainski, Division of Endocrinology, Cooper Health, Cherry Hill, NJ, USA) 

Chapter 10. Surgical Approach to Papillary Carcinoma with Lateral Neck Metastases => pp. 87-94 
(James Hamilton and David Cognetti, Department of Otolaryngology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 11. Surgical Approach to Locally Invasive Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma => pp. 95-114 
(Patrick Tassone and Joseph Curry, Department of Otolaryngology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 12. Incidentally found Papillary Carcinoma in a Thyroglossal Duct Cyst => pp. 115-122 
(Adam Vasconcellos and David Rosen, Department of Otolaryngology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) 

Chapter 13. Pediatric Well-Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma => pp. 123-134 
(Douglas Johnston, Department of Otolaryngology, Nemours Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA) 

About the Editors 

Index

This practical guide to the management of thyroid nodules and cancer offers the practitioner a common-sense approach to the management of an increasingly common clinical problem. Thyroid cancer is the most rapidly increasing cancer diagnosis in the United States and is now the fifth most common cancer among women. Indeed, an estimated 65,000 adults (15,000 men and 50,000 women) in the United States will be diagnosed this year with thyroid cancer. Many more will be treated for thyroid nodules. 

Unfortunately, practice patterns still vary greatly across the country and the world. Many patients we believe are inappropriately treated. Practitioners seeking to help their patients and make sense of conflicting thyroid cancer guidelines will discover illustrative cases that represent common situations in clinical practice. Unlike encyclopedic guidelines and impenetrable textbooks, this straightforward casebook engages, informs and entertains the reader. Even so, the book’s scenarios cover a broad range of clinical presentations from incidental microcarcinomas to invasive metastatic cancers. Here, molecular diagnostics and advanced imaging are demystified and incorporated into common-sense approaches stressing the importance of personalized care. And readers seeking deeper understanding will be guided in the book’s digital version with hyperlinks to primary source material.