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Thyroid Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations

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The management of thyroid disease has evolved rapidly within the past decade. Laparoscopic, video assisted and robotic thyroidectomy has been developed in order to reduce the cosmetic impact of surgery in the neck. Apart from surgical techniques, our understanding of the molecular genetics of cancer continues to progress, and with it come new techniques for diagnosis and treatment, such as genetic testing of family members of patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). Radiological advances are changing the way in which we manage certain head and neck conditions and continue to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer. New imaging techniques have been implemented to facilitate the management of thyroid cancer by multidisciplinary teams and cancer networks. The therapeutic potential of stem cell therapy for replacement therapy is in its infancy, but the possibility of transplanting follicular cells as substitute thyroid tissue would have an enormous impact on our current management of thyroid cancer.

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Huins, C., Tolley, N.S. (2010). Thyroid Surgery: Current Trends and Recent Innovations. In: Athanasiou, T., Debas, H., Darzi, A. (eds) Key Topics in Surgical Research and Methodology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71915-1_69

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