Sam Wiseman BSc, MD, FRCSC, FACS

Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia,

Consultant Endocrine Surgeon, Head & Neck Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist,

General Surgeon & Research Director, Department of Surgery,

St. Paul's Hospital, Providence Health Care,

Consultant Surgical Oncologist, British Columbia Cancer Agency,

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Chair, Endocrine Tumour Group, BC Cancer Surgery, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Director of Research, Department of Surgery, Providence Health Care, Editor, Gray's Surgical Anatomy

Sebastian Aspinall MD FRCSEd

Consultant Endocrine and General Surgeon

Associate Clinical Lecturer, University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Part One: Thyroid

Section One: Thyroid Nodule Evaluation & Treatment

Chapter One: Ultrasound

Review by: Julia E. Noel, Lisa A. Orloff

Chapter 2: Cytology

Review by: William G Albergotti, Emad Al Haj Ali

Chapter 3: Molecular Diagnostics

Review By: Todd McMullen

Chapter 4: Ablation

Review By: Hannah Nieto,Neil Sharma

Section Two: Thyroidectomy

Chapter 5: Surgeon Volume

Review by: Akie Watanabe, Sam M. Wiseman

Chapter 6: Thyroidectomy: Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring

Review by: Marika D. Russell, Rick Schneider, Che-Wei Wu, Amr H. Abdelhamid, Gregory W. Randolph

Chapter 7: Superior Laryngeal Nerve Management.

Review by Thomas D. Milner, Eitan Prisman

Chapter 8: Thyroidectomy: Vessel Sealing Devices

Review by Matthew Cherko, Ram Moorthy

Chapter 9: Thyroidectomy: Parathyroid Autofluorescence

Review by: Paulina Kuczma, Marco Demarchi, Frederic Triponez

Chapter 10: Remote Access Thyroidectomy

Review by: Maureen D. Moore,Thomas J. Fahey

Chapter 11: Thyroidectomy: Robotic

Review by: Mahmoud Omar, Mohamed Aboueisha, Mohamed Shama, Emad Kandil

Chapter 12: Graves' Disease

Review by: Rajam Raghunathan, Jacques How, Roger Tabah, Elliot Mitmaker,

Chapter 13: Goiter

Chapter Authors: Lucinda Duncan-Were, Carla Pajak

Chapter 14: Complications

Review By: Sendhil Rajan, Muhammad Shakeel, Sebastian Aspinall

Chapter 15: Hypoparathyroidism

Review by: Richard D. Bavier, David Goldenberg

Chapter 16: Parathyroid Autotransplantation

Review by: Helen E Doran

Section Three - Thyroid Cancer

Chapter 17: Epidemiology

Review by: Charles Meltzer

Chapter 18: NIFTP

Review by Tal Yalon,, Haggi Mazeh,

Chapter 19: Microcarcinoma

Review by Timothy M. Ullmann,Quan-Yang Duh

Chapter 20: Risk Stratification

Review by: Nancy L. Cho, Gerard M. Doherty

Chapter 21:Staging

Review by: Bianka Saravana-Bawan, Jesse D Pasternak

Chapter 22: Extent of Thyroidectomy

Review by: Pavithran Maniam, Iain J. Nixon

Chapter 23: Central Neck Dissection

Review by:

Shayanne A. Lajud, Jeremy L. Freeman

Chapter 24: Recurrent Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Review by:

Agamemnon Pericleous, Samuel Backman, Matilda Annebäck, Neil Tolley

Chapter 25: Recombinant TSH/Adjuvant Radioactive Iodine Therapy

Review by: Daegan Sit, Jonn Wu, Sarah Hamilton

Chapter 26: Targeted Therapy

Review by: Arif Adnan Shaukat

Chapter 27: Anaplastic Carcinoma

Review by: Omar Hilmi, Miss Lucy Li

Chapter 28: Medullary Carcinoma

Review by Aleix Rovira, Paul V Carroll, Ricard Simo

Chapter 29: Medullary Carcinoma: MEN-2

Review by: Yi Sia, Radu Mihai

Chapter 30: Pediatric Differentiated Carcinoma

Review by: Frances T. Lee, Xavier M. Keutgen, Peter Angelos

Part Two: Parathyroid

Section Four: Primary Hyperparathyroidism - Preoperative

Chapter 31: Epidemiology

Review by: Brendan C. Stack Jr.

Chapter 32: Natural History of Untreated Disease

Review by: Fares Benmiloud

Chapter 33: Surgical Indications

Review by: Peter Truran

Chapter 34: Preoperative Localisation

Review by: Saba P Balasubramanian

Section Five: Primary Hyperparathyroidism - Parathyroidectomy

Chapter 35: Surgeon Volume

Review by: Rongzhi Wang, Herbert Chen

Chapter 36: Bilateral Operation

Reviewed by: Fiona C Eatock, Ioan Titus Cvasciuc,

Chapter 37: Focused Operation

Review by: Bianka Saravana-Bawan, Adrienne Melck

Chapter 38: Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Intraoperative PTH Measurement

Review By: Hiba Fatayer, Susannah Shore

Chapter 39: Remote access Operation

Review By: Priscilla Procopio, Pennestrì Francesco, Marco Raffaelli

Chapter 40: Parathyroid Cryopreservation

Review by: Abby Gross, Eren Berber

Chapter 41: Autofluorescence

Review by: John Phay

Chapter 42: Normocalcemic Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Review by:Samir Damji, Adrian Harvey

Chapter 43: Normohormonal Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Mechteld C de Jong, Sheila M Fraser

Chapter 44: Recurrent Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Matilda Annebäck, F. Fausto Palazzo

Chapter 45: Surgical Complications

Review by: Neil Patel, Michael Stechman,

Chapter 46: MEN1- Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: David Leong, Stan Sidhu

Chapter 47: MEN-2 - Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Mechteld C de Jong, Rajeev Parameswaran

Section Six: Secindary Hyperparathyroidism

Chapter 48: Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Hadiza S Kazaure,Julie Ann Sosa

Section Seven: Tertiary Hyperparathroidism

Chapter 49: Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism

Review by: Thomas Burton,Goswin Meyer- Rochow

Section Eight: Parathyroid Carcinoma

Chapter 50: Parathyroid Carcinoma

Review by: Gaurav Agarwal, Dileep Ramesh Hoysal