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Thyroid Surgery: Preventing and Managing Complications

ISBN: 978-1-118-44469-6

November 2012

Wiley-Blackwell

336 pages

Description

Do you regularly perform thyroid surgery?

Are you looking for a tool that guides you through best surgical practice and successful
avoidance of complications?

Whether you are an endocrine surgeon, general surgeon or otolaryngologist, you will find this highly practical, full colour multimedia tool an essential guide to help perfect your surgical techniques and overcome the various complications that can arise when performing surgery of the thyroid.

Packed full of useful tips and tricks, and well illustrated with over 130 figures, it covers the following key areas:

• Best practices in thyroid surgery

• Intraoperative complications – both common and rare cases

• Postoperative complications – including those needing urgent treatment

• Complications following minimally invasive and robotic techniques

• Thyroid hormone replacement and quality of life after thyroid surgery.

Included also are 20 high resolution, step-by-step surgical videos of thyroid surgery, giving you outstanding visual coverage of the experts in action.

Edited by an expert international editor team from the US and Europe, Thyroid Surgery: Preventing and
Managing Complications perfectly meets all of your clinical needs.

About the Author

EDITED BY

Paolo Miccoli, MD, Professor of Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

David J. Terris, MD, FACS, Porubsky Professor and Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA, USA

Michele N. Minuto, MD, PhD, Department of Surgical Sciences (DISC), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Melanie W. Seybt, Columbia Ear, Nose and Throat Associates, Columbia, SC, USA