Notes on positioning the patient
Basic surgical anatomy
Incisions; thyroid exposure
Capsular dissection
Thyroid hilus : suspensory ligament of Berry ; inferior (recurrent) laryngeal nerve ; parathyroids ; posterior thyroid process (tubercle of Zuckerkandl)
Further case records with demonstrations of the technique of capsular dissection
Basic remarks
Proliferation, clonality, and autonomy of thyroid lesions
Molecular genetic diagnosis. Gene profiling
Follicular neoplasia
Thyroid nodules in surgical practice. Strategy of adequate excision
Case records : hyperplastic and neoplastic nodules ; functional autonomy ; follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC)
Embryological thyroid development and developmental anomalies : clinical aspects
Total thyroidectomy for benign nodular goiter
Long-standing solitary nodule
Further clinical considerations
Nodules in graves disease
Nodules in chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto thyroiditis, Hashimoto disease, lymphocytic thyroiditis)
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Anaplastic (undifferentiated) thyroid carcinoma
Medullary thyroid carcinoma (C-cell carcinoma)
Concluding remarks