Atlas of Thyroid Surgery

This colour atlas is a concise guide to thyroid surgery, presented predominantly through pictures rather than text, helping to demonstrate surgical procedures in a step by step manner.

The book covers numerous diseases and disorders of the thyroid and parathyroid glands, presenting the latest techniques and best practice, as well as practical suggestions on how to avoid surgical complications and how to manage them if they do arise.

This highly useful, practical reference is richly illustrated with high quality images and intraoperative photographs.

Key points

• Practical colour atlas illustrating latest techniques and best practice in thyroid surgery
• Covers most thyroid and parathyroid gland disorders and diseases
• Includes suggestions on how to avoid surgical complications
• Richly illustrated with intraoperative photographs and images

1. Assessing the Vocal Cord Mobility
2. Some Worrisomes of Solitary Thyroid Nodule
3. Confirming the Lower Limit of Thyroid Gland
4. Assessment of Retrosternality
5. Minimal Retrosternal Extension
6. Massive Retrosternal Extension
7. Surface Marking for Thyroid Surgery
8. Forewarned is Forearmed
9. Benign Tumors Often Push the Trachea
10. Benign Pathology Often Push the Trachea
11. Marking of Incision
12. Horses for Courses
13. Incision and Mobilization of Skin Layers
14. Extension of Incision
15. Raising of Skin—Platysma Flap
16. Platysma is Usually Deficient in the Midline
17. External Jugular Vein
18. Anterior Jugular Vein
19. Median Cervical Vein
20. Variants of Anterior Jugular Vein
21. Landmarks for Midline
22. Pyramidal Lobe and Levator Glandulae Thyroideae
23. Division of Deep Fascia in Midline
24. Loose Areolar Tissue
25. Avoid Superficial Capsular Veins
26. Strap Muscles
27. General Layout of Strap Muscles
28. Strap Muscles
29. Surgical Relevance of Ansa Cervicalis
30. Dividing Strap Muscles
31. Ansa Cervicalis Segmental Supply
32. Nerve Supply of Strap Muscle
33. Mimicking the Deep Fascia
34. Elevation of Strap Superiorly
35. Lateral Approach
36. Posterolateral Mobilization
37. Middle Thyroid Vein
38. Middle Thyroid Vein (Short, Stumpy and Wide)
39. Middle Thyroid Vein
40. Learn your Anatomy of Middle Thyroid Vein in Neck Dissections
41. Thyroid Veins
42. Kocher’s Vein
43. Fourth Veins of Kocher
44. The Communicating Vessel
45. Superior Thyroid Pedicle
46. Upper Pole—Superior Thyroid Pedicle
47. Reconsider the Old Dictum—Superior Thyroid Artery
48. Anterior Branch of Superior Thyroid Artery
49. Respect the Tenor of the Speech
50. A Nerve that sets you apart
51. Superior Thyroid Vein
52. Additional Superior Thyroid Vein
53. Changing Axioms—Inferior Thyroid Artery
54. Branches of Inferior Thyroid Artery
55. Reasons to Protect the Inferior Thyroid Artery
56. The Saviour Artery of Both the Parathyroids—Inferior Thyroid Artery
57. Inferior Thyroid Artery Supplying Both Parathyroids
58. Inferior Thyroid Artery
59. Normal Anatomy of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
60. Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (The Embryology-I)
61. Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (The Embryology-II)
62. Revisiting the Anatomy of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve/Inferior Thyroid Artery
63. Beginer’s Guide to Recurrent laryngeal nerve—Beahr’s Triangle
64. Beahr’s Triangle
65. Identifying the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve at Cricothyroid Joint
66. Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve in Tracheoesophageal Groove Behind Inferior Thyroid Artery
67. Left Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
68. Watch the Emissary at Cricothyroid Joint
69. Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve passing through the Branches of Inferior Thyroid Artery
70. Usual Variations of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve and Inferior Thyroid Artery
71. The Cornerstone of Surgery
72. Divisions of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
73. Low Division of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
74. Misadventure at Cricothyroid Joint
75. Constant Guides to Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
76. Nodule of Zuckerkandl
77. A Less Emphasized: Cricothyroid Joint
78. The Rule of the Parallel Line
79. Magnification Helps Here
80. Let the Sleeping Dog Lie—Ligament of Berry
81. Ligament of Berry—Posterior Condensation of Deep Fascia
82. Where the Nerve Enters—Emissary Vessels
83. Rare Variation—Non-recurrent Laryngeal Nerve
84. Setting the Bench Mark
85. Respecting the Neighbours—Parathyroids
86. Identification of Superior Parathyroids
87. Vascular Loop of Parathyroid (Superior Thyroid Artery)
88. Vascular Loop of Parathyroid (Inferior Thyroid Artery)
89. Unclear Yet Desirable Dissection
90. The Fascia Protects the Microvasculature
91. Medial to Lateral Dissection
92. The New Commandment
93. Inferior Thyroid Artery—New Commandments
94. Branch of Inferior Thyroid Artery Supplying Superior Parathyroid Gland
95. Time Well Spent
96. Inferior Parathyroids
97. Preserved Till the Last for a Reason—Inferior Thyroid Veins
98. Inferior Thyroid Veins
99. Thyroidea Ima Artery
100. To Draw the Last Straw—Division of Isthmus
101. Isthmus is Removed Along with the Lobe
102. Cervical Sympathetic Chain
103. Thoracic Duct
104. A Job Well Done
105. Total Thyroidectomy with Left Radical Neck Dissection—Five Years Postoperative Picture
106. Back to the Clinics
107. Thyroglossal Cyst/Aberrant Thyroid
108. Puberty Goiter
109. Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
110. Inflammatory Diseases of Thyroid
111. Metabolic—Autonomic Nodule (Toxic)
112. Surgery for Thyrotoxicosis
113. Graves’ Disease (Uncontrolled)
114. Suspicious Nodules
115. Not so Happy Solitary Thyroid Nodule
116. Clinical Application of Various Risk Stratification Schemes
117. The Jigsaw of High and Low-risk
118. Low-risk Patients
119. Intermediate-risk Patients
120. High-risk Patients
121. Low-risk Patient with Low-risk Tumor
122. Low-risk Patient with High-risk Tumor
123. Unilateral Multinodular Goiter in Low-risk Patient
124. Bilateral Multinodular Goiter in Low-risk Patients
125. Large Bilateral Multinodular Goiter in Low-risk Patients
126. Multinodular Goiter in High-risk Patient
127. Compressive
128. High-risk Tumor with High-risk Patient
129. High-risk Patient with High-risk Tumor
130. Follicular Carcinoma of Thyroid
131. The Treatment Options in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
132. Well-differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma in Children
133. Well-differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma in Pregnancy
134. Anaplastic Cancers
135. A Case that Taught us to Respect Parathyroids
136. Technique of Parathyroid Implantation
137. This at Best Should be Avoided
138. A Common Sad Story
139. Branding is a Common Tribal Treatment with little Benefit
140. Cervical Epidural Anesthesia
141. Optimal Anesthesia for Thyroid Surgery (Melghat, India)

Madan Kapre
Consultant ENT Surgeon; Director, Neeti Clinics, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Devendra Mahore
Associate Professor ENT, Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Ashutosh Mangalgiri
Professor Anatomy, Chirayu Medical College and Hospital, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India