Thyroidectomy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Cost-Utility Analysis of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring in the Setting of Total Thyroidectomy. 
  • A cautionary note regarding safety of thyroidectomy in the elderly. 
  • A clinical algorithm for fine-needle aspiration molecular testing effectively guides the appropriate extent of initial thyroidectomy. 
  • A meta-analysis of the effect of prophylactic central compartment neck dissection on locoregional recurrence rates in patients with papillary thyroid cancer. 
  • A population-based study of outcomes from thyroidectomy in aging Americans: at what cost? 
  • ATA practice guidelines for the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer: were they followed in the United States? 
  • Adjuvant radioactive iodine therapy is associated with improved survival for patients with intermediate-risk papillary thyroid cancer. 
  • Aggressive variants of papillary thyroid cancer: incidence, characteristics and predictors of survival among 43,738 patients. 
  • Aggressive variants of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma are associated with extrathyroidal spread and lymph-node metastases: a population-level analysis. 
  • American Thyroid Association Statement on Remote-Access Thyroid Surgery. 
  • American Thyroid Association design and feasibility of a prospective randomized controlled trial of prophylactic central lymph node dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma. 
  • Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma, Version 2.2015. 
  • Applying Criteria of Active Surveillance to Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer Over a Decade: How Many Surgeries and Complications Can Be Avoided? 
  • Association of parathyroid pathology with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma. 
  • Calcium and phosphorus homeostasis in horses. 
  • Can minimally invasive follicular thyroid cancer be approached as a benign lesion?: a population-level analysis of survival among 1,200 patients. 
  • Carcinoma of the parathyroid gland: a 30-year experience. 
  • Central lymph node dissection in patients with papillary thyroid cancer: a population level analysis of 14,257 cases. 
  • Cervical lymph node metastasis and papillary thyroid carcinoma: does the compartment involved affect survival? Experience from the SEER database. 
  • Clinical and economic outcomes of thyroid and parathyroid surgery in children. 
  • Clinical review 99: The management of Graves' disease in children, with special emphasis on radioiodine treatment. 
  • Cost Effectiveness of Routine Laryngoscopy in the Surgical Treatment of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. 
  • Cost impact of molecular testing for indeterminate thyroid nodule fine-needle aspiration biopsies. 
  • Current management of pediatric thyroid disease and differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Detection of Circulating BRAF(V600E) in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. 
  • Developmental biology of hepatic phenylalanine hydroxylase activity in foetal and neonatal rats synchronized as to conception. 
  • Differentiated thyroid cancer presenting with distant metastases: a population analysis over two decades. 
  • Difficulties of parathyroidectomy after previous thyroidectomy. 
  • Early prediction of hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy using parathyroid hormone: an analysis of pooled individual patient data from nine observational studies. 
  • Endolaryngeal hookwire electrodes for intraoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring during pediatric thyroid surgery. 
  • Evolving strategies for targeted cancer therapy--past, present, and future. 
  • Exploring the Relationship Between Patient Age and Cancer-Specific Survival in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Rethinking Current Staging Systems. 
  • Extent of surgery for low-risk thyroid cancer in the elderly: Equipoise in survival but not in short-term outcomes. 
  • Extent of surgery for papillary thyroid cancer is not associated with survival: an analysis of 61,775 patients. 
  • Fine needle aspiration of poorly differentiated oxyphilic (Hürthle cell) thyroid carcinoma: a case report. 
  • Gasless Transaxillary Endoscopic Thyroidectomy with Robotic Assistance: A High-Volume Experience in North America. 
  • Hoarseness after thyroidectomy: blame the endocrine surgeon alone? 
  • Hormonal control of angiotensinogen production. 
  • How Many Lymph Nodes Are Enough? Assessing the Adequacy of Lymph Node Yield for Papillary Thyroid Cancer. 
  • Hyperthyroidism and other causes of thyrotoxicosis: management guidelines of the American Thyroid Association and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. 
  • Hypothyroidism modulates beta adrenergic receptor adenylate cyclase interactions in rat reticulocytes. 
  • INITIAL ADOPTION OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN THYROID-STIMULATING HORMONE FOLLOWING THYROIDECTOMY IN THE MEDICARE THYROID CANCER PATIENT POPULATION. 
  • Impact of Timeliness of Resection and Thyroidectomy Margin Status on Survival for Patients with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer: An Analysis of 335 Cases. 
  • Impact of extent of surgery on survival for papillary thyroid cancer patients younger than 45 years. 
  • In patients with thyroid cancer of follicular cell origin, a family history of nonmedullary thyroid cancer in one first-degree relative is associated with more aggressive disease. 
  • Increases in thyroid nodule fine-needle aspirations, operations, and diagnoses of thyroid cancer in the United States. 
  • Insular thyroid cancer: a population-level analysis of patient characteristics and predictors of survival. 
  • Intraoperative pathologic examination in the era of molecular testing for differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Is There a Minimum Number of Thyroidectomies a Surgeon Should Perform to Optimize Patient Outcomes? 
  • Knowledge of pathologically versus clinically negative lymph nodes is associated with reduced use of radioactive iodine post-thyroidectomy for low-risk papillary thyroid cancer. 
  • Laryngeal nerve monitoring and minimally invasive thyroid surgery: complementary technologies. 
  • Low-Risk Thyroid Cancer in Elderly: Total Thyroidectomy/RAI Predominates but Lacks Survival Advantage. 
  • Lymphovascular invasion is associated with survival for papillary thyroid cancer. 
  • Malignant teratoma in the thyroid gland of an adult: a case report and a review of the literature. 
  • Management of follicular tumors of the thyroid. 
  • Measurement and Variation in Estimation of Quality of Life Effects of Patients Undergoing Treatment for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. 
  • Medullary thyroid cancer: are practice patterns in the United States discordant from American Thyroid Association guidelines? 
  • Medullary thyroid carcinoma without marked elevation of calcitonin: a diagnostic and surveillance dilemma. 
  • Minimally invasive follicular carcinoma: predictors of vascular invasion and impact on patterns of care. 
  • Molecular-Directed Treatment of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment. 
  • Multinodular goiter and primary hyperparathyroidism: a circuitous route to diagnosing metastatic uveal melanoma. 
  • NCCN Guidelines Insights: Thyroid Carcinoma, Version 2.2018. 
  • Noninvasive Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma and the Afirma Gene-Expression Classifier. 
  • Optimal surgical management of well-differentiated thyroid cancer arising in struma ovarii: a series of 4 patients and a review of 53 reported cases. 
  • Optimizing surgical treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma associated with BRAF mutation. 
  • Organic anxiety disorder. Iatrogenic hyperthyroidism. 
  • Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: An Over-Treated Malignancy?: Reply. 
  • Papillary adenocarcinoma of the thyroid in a thyroglossal duct cyst. 
  • Papillary thyroid cancer. 
  • Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: an over-treated malignancy? 
  • Parathyroid hormone deficiency after total thyroidectomy: incidence and time. 
  • Parathyroidectomy improves neurocognitive deficits in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Patients Treated at Low-Volume Centers have Higher Rates of Incomplete Resection and Compromised Outcomes: Analysis of 31,129 Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer. 
  • Patients with follicular and Hurthle cell microcarcinomas have compromised survival: a population level study of 22,738 patients. 
  • Patterns of Initial Recurrence in Completely Resected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. 
  • Pediatric endocrine surgery: who is operating on our children? 
  • Pediatric thyroid disease: when is surgery necessary, and who should be operating on our children? 
  • Performance of a Genomic Sequencing Classifier for the Preoperative Diagnosis of Cytologically Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules. 
  • Positional dyspnea and tracheal compression as indications for goiter resection. 
  • Postoperative calcium supplementation in patients undergoing thyroidectomy. 
  • Postoperative parathyroid hormone testing decreases symptomatic hypocalcemia and associated emergency room visits after total thyroidectomy. 
  • Predicting recurrence of papillary thyroid cancer using the eighth edition of the AJCC/UICC staging system. 
  • Predictors of nodal metastasis in pediatric differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Preoperative Cytologic Diagnosis of Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features: A Prospective Analysis. 
  • Prevalence of Contralateral Tumors in Patients with Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Cancer. 
  • Primary leiomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland. 
  • Prophylactic thyroidectomy in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A. 
  • Prophylactic thyroidectomy: who needs it, when, and why. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of Patient Scar Assessment Questionnaire following thyroid and parathyroid surgery. 
  • Racial Disparities in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Have We Bridged the Gap? 
  • Racial disparities in clinical and economic outcomes from thyroidectomy. 
  • Radioactive Iodine Treatment Is Associated with Improved Survival for Patients with Hürthle Cell Carcinoma. 
  • Randomized controlled trial on single dose steroid before thyroidectomy for benign disease to improve postoperative nausea, pain, and vocal function. 
  • Reasons Associated with Total Thyroidectomy as Initial Surgical Management of an Indeterminate Thyroid Nodule. 
  • Regional anesthesia for thyroidectomy in two patients with amiodarone-induced hyperthyroidism. 
  • Regulation of expression of transcobalamin II receptor in the rat. 
  • Rehospitalization among elderly patients with thyroid cancer after thyroidectomy are prevalent and costly. 
  • Reply to: "Surgeon Volume Threshold for Total Thyroidectomy". 
  • Reproductive patterns in cyclic and pregnant thyroidectomized mares. 
  • Response to "simplifying nerve monitoring". 
  • Response to warfarin in hypothyroid rats. 
  • Robotic thyroidectomy for cancer in the US: patterns of use and short-term outcomes. 
  • Robotic thyroidectomy: do it well or don't do it. 
  • Same-day thyroidectomy: a review of practice patterns and outcomes for 1,168 procedures in New York State. 
  • Scar perceptions after thyroid and parathyroid surgery: comparison of minimal and conventional approaches. 
  • Solitary fibrous tumor of the thyroid: cytopathologic findings and differential diagnosis. 
  • Successful Prediction of a Left Nonrecurrent Laryngeal Nerve in a Patient With Right-Sided Aorta and Aberrant Left Subclavian Artery. 
  • Successful combined surgical approach in a rare case of retrotracheal goitre in a patient with anatomical impediments. 
  • Surgeon volume and adequacy of thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Surgical Hypoparathyroidism. 
  • Surgical management of medullary thyroid carcinoma. 
  • Swallowing disorders after thyroidectomy: What we know and where we are. A systematic review. 
  • T1a Versus T1b Differentiated Thyroid Cancers: Do We Need to Make the Distinction? 
  • The Impact of Pathologically Positive Lymph Nodes in the Clinically Negative Neck: An Analysis of 39,301 Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer. 
  • The importance of surgeon experience for clinical and economic outcomes from thyroidectomy. 
  • The management of thyroid nodules in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • The role of intraoperative nerve monitoring (IONM) in thyroidectomy: where do we stand today? 
  • Thyroid Disease and Surgery in CHEER: The Nation's Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Practice-Based Network. 
  • Thyroid cancer in childhood: a retrospective review of childhood course. 
  • Thyroid cancer: 1999 update. 
  • Thyroid cancers incidentally detected at imaging in a 10-year period: how many cancers would be missed with use of the recommendations from the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound? 
  • Thyroid carcinoma: the surgeon's perspective. 
  • Thyroid hormone regulation of alpha-adrenergic receptors: studies in rat myocardium. 
  • Thyroid nodules (≥4 cm): can ultrasound and cytology reliably exclude cancer? 
  • Thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy in patients with high body mass index are safe overall: analysis of 26,864 patients. 
  • Thyroidectomy followed by fosbretabulin (CA4P) combination regimen appears to suggest improvement in patient survival in anaplastic thyroid cancer. 
  • To stimulate or withdraw? A cost-utility analysis of recombinant human thyrotropin versus thyroxine withdrawal for radioiodine ablation in patients with low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer in the United States. 
  • To supplement or not to supplement: a cost-utility analysis of calcium and vitamin D repletion in patients after thyroidectomy. 
  • Total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Treatment patterns of aging Americans with differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Trends in incidentally identified thyroid cancers over a decade: a retrospective analysis of 2,090 surgical patients. 
  • Tumor genotype determines phenotype and disease-related outcomes in thyroid cancer: a study of 1510 patients. 
  • Variation of Thyroidectomy-Specific Outcomes Among Hospitals and Their Association With Risk Adjustment and Hospital Performance. 
  • What Is the Optimal Treatment of Papillary Thyroid Cancer? 
  • What's old is new again : editorial about "total thyroidectomy is associated with increased risk of complications for low- and high-volume surgeons," by Hauch et al., doi:10.1245/s10434-014-3846-8. 
  • Whole-body Tc-99m sestamibi scintigraphy in the follow-up of differentiated thyroid carcinoma. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Richard Hall Chaney, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
  • Freemark, Michael Scott, Robert C. Atkins, M.D. and Veronica Atkins Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Pediatrics, Endocrinology
  • Hyslop, Terry, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Raynor, Eileen Margolies, Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Roy Choudhury, Kingshuk, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology