Thyroid Surgery: Preventing and Managing Complications - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470659505 ISBN 13: 9780470659502

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0470659505
• ISBN 13: 9780470659502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Miccoli Paolo, Terris David J., Minuto Michele N., Seybt Melanie W.