Clinical Approach to Well-differentiated Thyroid Cancers

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 thyro...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Greene, Frederick L. (Editor), Komorowski, Andrzej L. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:Head and Neck Cancer Clinics,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Historical perspective and current epidemiology
  • Pathology of differentiated thyroid cancers
  • Clinical evaluation of the thyroid gland
  • Imaging in thyroid cancer
  • Staging of differentiated thyroid cancer
  • Preoperative endocrine management of differentiated thyroid cancer
  • Surgical treatment of thyroid cancer
  • Minimally invasive approach to the thyroid
  • Management of advanced thyroid cancer: Local recurrence and neck dissections
  • Nutritional issues in patients with thyroid cancer
  • Patient safety in surgery for thyroid cancer
  • Postoperative complications in thyroid surgery
  • Adjuvant treatment and follow up of differentiated thyroid cancer.