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Review
. 2011 Dec 23:3:54.
doi: 10.1186/1758-3284-3-54.

How to do it: the difficult thyroid

Tahwinder Upile  1 , Waseem Jerjes, Jaspal Mahil, Hitesh Tailor, Ramkishan Balakumar, Anuja Rao, Yassar Qureshi, Iain Bowman, Suchana Mukhopadhyay
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Review

How to do it: the difficult thyroid

Tahwinder Upile et al. Head Neck Oncol. .

Abstract

There is a paucity of publications detailing how to deal with the difficult thyroid cancer. When compared to other cancers, it is relatively rare with several histopathological subtypes which run differing clinical courses and respond to different therapies. It is a condition predominately treated by specifically trained General and now ENT surgeons who already have a thorough knowledge of vocal fold assessment and rehabilitation as well as emergency airways management both to avoid and treat common complications should they occur.Good surgery involves a team effort to produce good results consistently. All members of the team are essential to quality service delivery. Communication with the team and the patient is paramount. We describe our approach to the difficult thyroid.

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The instrument tray.
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Operative series "I" for the local anaesthetic removal of a papillary carcinoma from an unfit 84 year old lady.
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Operative series "II" for the local anaesthetic removal of a papillary carcinoma from an unfit 84 year old lady.
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Drain placement and skin closure.
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