Advances in Technology and Treatment in Thyroid Surgery
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 3431
Special Issue Editors
Interests: voice outcomes; swallow outcomes; thyroid surgery; laryngeal function
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The advancements that have been made in thyroid surgery within the past decade have created opportunities and demonstrated improvement in the quality of endocrine surgical care for our patients. Thyroid surgery has become more than the operation itself; it has come to include a thoughtful and directed perioperative treatment planning, as well as transformed the operative management for our patients. Surgical techniques now include scarless thyroid surgery as well as radiofrequency ablation of thyroid nodules instead of excision of entire thyroid tissue. The aim and scope of this Special Issue is to explore these advances in more depth as well as to detail the research that has gone into the development and growth of some of these techniques and technologies. We will explore technologies such as in-office ultrasonography and describe how this feasible imaging modality and associated procedures have become a mainstay in the review of anatomy, operative planning and informed decision making when it comes to thyroid surgery. Other adjunct technologies such as intraoperative nerve monitoring continue to advance with new cutting-edge research and inform our ability to prevent neural injury. Finally, in a new trajectory, we will discuss artificial intelligence and its capabilities in thyroid surgery.
This Special Issue includes the following topics for discussion, all of which we hope will inform and educate the reader and the thyroid surgical enthusiast on the future of thyroid surgery.
Dr. Vaninder K. Dhillon
Dr. Jonathon O. Russell
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- in-office ultrasound
- molecular testing
- thyroid nodules
- radiofrequency ablation
- scarless thyroid surgery
- artifical intelligence
- intraoperative nerve monitoring
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