Clinical Approach to Well-differentiated Thyroid Cancers

✍ Scribed by Frederick L. Greene, Andrzej L. Komorowski (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer India
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Series: Head and Neck Cancer Clinics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The management of patients with thyroid cancers is a constantly changing field due to numerous developments in diagnostics and therapy. This book provides clinicians with up-to-date information on the current management of patients through all stages of their thyroid disease: from diagnosis of thyroid nodules through staging, extent and technique of surgery to adjuvant therapies, and follow-up schemes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Historical Perspective and Current Epidemiology....Pages 1-4
Pathology of Differentiated Thyroid Cancers....Pages 5-22
Clinical Evaluation of the Thyroid Gland....Pages 23-26
Imaging in Thyroid Cancer....Pages 27-39
Staging of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer....Pages 41-44
Preoperative Endocrine Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer....Pages 45-53
Surgical Treatment of Thyroid Cancer....Pages 55-77
Minimally Invasive Approach to the Thyroid....Pages 79-91
Management of Advanced Thyroid Cancer: Local Recurrence and Neck Dissections....Pages 93-100
Nutritional Issues in Patients with Thyroid Cancer....Pages 101-106
Patient Safety in Surgery for Thyroid Cancer....Pages 107-113
Postoperative Complications in Thyroid Surgery....Pages 115-124
Adjuvant Treatment and Follow Up of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer....Pages 125-143
Back Matter....Pages 145-147

✦ Subjects

Oncology