ReviewLangenbeck's archives of surgery2013
German Association of Endocrine Surgeons practice guideline for the surgical management of malignant thyroid tumors.
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101 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- [Update on anaplastic thyroid cancer-What is relevant for surgeons?]Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Guideline
- Completion Thyroidectomy Trends and Rates: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Care and Management of Voice Change in Thyroid Surgery: Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics Clinical Practice Guideline.Clinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology · 2022Guideline
- Differentiated Thyroid Cancer-Treatment: State of the Art.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Pooled it
- Systematic review of clinical practice guidelines in the diagnosis and management of thyroid nodules and cancer.BMC medicine · 2013Pooled it
- Development and Validation of a Nomogram to Predict Cancer-Specific Survival in Elderly Patients With Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma.Frontiers in public health · 2022Trial
- Is intraoperative calcitonin monitoring useful to modulate the extension of neck dissection in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma?World journal of surgery · 2014Trial
- Therapeutic central lymph node dissection in papillary thyroid cancer: what is the optimal extent in unilateral nodal disease?Endocrine · 2026Article
- Inter-reader agreement and additive benefit of SPECT or SPECT/CT modality with [EJNMMI reports · 2025Article
- [Update on medullary thyroid carcinoma-What is relevant for surgeons?]Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- [Update on follicular thyroid cancer-What is relevant for surgeons?]Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Tailored Surgery for Medullary Thyroid Cancer (MTC) Based on Pretherapeutic Basal Calcitonin and Intraoperative Diagnosis of Desmoplastic Stroma Reaction: A Proposal for a New Surgical Concept.Annals of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Mutation-based, neoadjuvant treatment for advanced anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
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- European Society of Endocrine Surgeons (ESES) consensus statement on advanced thyroid cancer: definitions and management.The British journal of surgery · 2024Article
- [30 years of prophylactic thyroidectomy for hereditary medullary thyroid cancer : A milestone in translational medicine].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Review
- Risk Factors for Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Palsy in Thyroid Surgery: A Single Center Experience of 1147 Procedures with Intermittent Intraoperative Neuromonitoring.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Intraoperative thyroid frozen section: indications, results and consequences.Gland surgery · 2024Article
- Case Series of Surgical Treatment in Pediatric Thyroid Carcinoma in a Single Institution.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024Article
- [Precision medicine in endocrinology exemplified by medullary thyroid cancer].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Review
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Abstract
introductionOver the past years, the incidence of thyroid cancer has surged not only in Germany but also in other countries of the Western hemisphere. This surge was first and foremost due to an increase of prognostically favorable ("low risk") papillary thyroid microcarcinomas, for which limited surgical procedures are often sufficient without loss of oncological benefit. These developments called for an update of the previous practice guideline to detail the surgical treatment options that are available for the various disease entities and tumor stages.
methodsThe present German Association of Endocrine Surgeons practice guideline was developed on the basis of clinical evidence considering current national and international treatment recommendations through a formal expert consensus process in collaboration with the German Societies of General and Visceral Surgery, Endocrinology, Nuclear Medicine, Pathology, Radiooncology, Oncological Hematology, and a German thyroid cancer patient support organization.
resultsThe practice guideline for the surgical management of malignant thyroid tumors includes recommendations regarding preoperative workup; classification of locoregional nodes and terminology of surgical procedures; frequency, clinical, and histopathological features of occult and clinically apparent papillary, follicular, poorly differentiated, undifferentiated, and sporadic and hereditary medullary thyroid cancers, thyroid lymphoma and thyroid metastases from primaries outside the thyroid gland; extent of thyroidectomy; extent of lymph node dissection; aerodigestive tract resection; postoperative follow-up and surgery for recurrence and distant metastases.
conclusionThese evidence-based recommendations for surgical therapy reflect various "treatment corridors" that are best discussed within multidisciplinary teams and the patient considering tumor type, stage, progression, and inherent surgical risk.
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