This book encompasses many different diagnoses as well as several specialties of practicing
surgeons in the United States. Over the last ten years many advances have been made in
preoperative assessment including imaging and diagnostic techniques operative approaches
including minimally invasive and robotic surgery and post operative care. Controversies in
Thyroid Surgery explores some of the controversies that arise as the result of these new
findings and applications. The book is divided into the two categories of benign diagnosis and
cancer topics. Both of these areas lend themselves to separate analysis of specific problems in
the areas mentioned above. The text reviews recent data about advances in diagnostic techniques
as well as outcomes with specific regards to the newer operative techniques. The textbook will
serve as a resource for medical and surgical colleagues involved in the treatment of a wide
variety of thyroid diseases. Authors that are experts in their field and have published
extensively provide balanced and non-biased views of topics that are admittedly controversial.
Controversies in Thyroid Surgery will be of great value and utility to practicing
endocrinologists general surgeons and otolaryngologists.
