Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4377-1850-8
Verlag: Saunders

Buch, Englisch, Gewicht: 540 g

Topics in this publication include Thyroid Disease and Where the Field is Going; Surgical Anatomy of Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands; Ultrasonography and Thyroid Disease; FNA Cytopathology; Surgical Management of Thyroid Disease; Surgical Management of Cervical Lymph Nodes in Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer; Management of Locally Invasive Disease; Post-operative Management of Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer; Reoperation for Recurrent/Persistent Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer; Molecular Biology and Targeted Therapies for Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer; Imaging of Parathyroid Glands; Surgical Management of Parathyroid Disease; Considerations for 2-degree and 3-degree Hyperparathyroidism; and Management of Parathyroid Carcinoma; among others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tufano, Ralph P.

Pai, Sara I

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HNO-Heilkunde, Phoniatrie, Audiologie

Über Autor(innen)

Tufano, Ralph P.
Dr. Tufano has served as the Charles W. Cummings MD Endowed Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 2012-2021. Dr. Tufano has served as the department's Director of the Division of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery since 2011 and its American Head and Neck Society accredited fellowship in Endocrine Surgery. He is also a past chair of the American Academy of Otolaryngology's Endocrine Surgery Committee and serves on the American Head and Neck Society's Endocrine Section Board. He has authored over 230 peer-reviewed papers, more than 40 textbook chapters related to thyroid and parathyroid diseases, and has edited two textbooks. After 21 years at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Dr. Tufano joined the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in 2021 to direct the First Physicians Group Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Endocrine Center that consists of a dedicated Thyroid and Parathyroid Center and Head and Neck Cancer Center. He is now a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Tufano was the first surgeon in the U.S.A. to perform RFA of thyroid nodules (2019).