Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Endocrine surgery

Bertil Hamberger

Minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid surgery is not a question of length of the incision

Jean–François Henry

The use of “harmonic scalpel” versus “knot tying” for conventional “open” thyroidectomy: results of a prospective randomized study

Celestino Pio Lombardi, Marco Raffaelli, Americo Cicchetti, Marco Marchetti, Carmela De Crea, Rossella Di Bidino, Luigi Oragano, Rocco Bellantone

The usefulness of preoperative ultrasonographic identification of nonrecurrent inferior laryngeal nerve in neck surgery

Maurizio Iacobone, Giovanni Viel, Simone Zanella, Marzia Bottussi, Mauro Frego, Gennaro Favia

Intraoperative PTH monitoring during parathyroidectomy: the need for stricter criteria to detect multiglandular disease

Celestino Pio Lombardi, Marco Raffaelli, Emanuela Traini, Enrico Di Stasio, Cinzia Carrozza, Carmela De Crea, Cecilia Zuppi, Rocco Bellantone

Minimally invasive video-assisted thyreoidectomy (MIVAT) with and without use of harmonic scalpel—a randomized study

Marcin Barczyński, Aleksander Konturek, Stanisław Cichoń

Ligasure versus Ultracision® in thyroid surgery: a prospective randomized study

Paola Vincenza Sartori, Sergio De Fina, Giovanni Colombo, Francesco Pugliese, Fabrizio Romano, Giovanni Cesana, Franco Uggeri

Focused versus conventional parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism: a prospective, randomized, blinded trial

Algirdas Slepavicius, Virgilijus Beisa, Vinsas Janusonis, Kestutis Strupas

Complications to thyroid surgery: results as reported in a database from a multicenter audit comprising 3,660 patients

A. Bergenfelz, S. Jansson, A. Kristoffersson, H. Mårtensson, E. Reihnér, G. Wallin, I. Lausen

Use of the harmonic scalpel versus conventional haemostatic techniques in patients with Grave disease undergoing total thyroidectomy: a prospective randomised controlled trial

P. Hallgrimsson, L. Lovén, J Westerdahl, Anders Bergenfelz

The recurrent laryngeal nerve and the inferior thyroid artery—anatomical variations during surgery

Ozer Makay, Gokhan Icoz, Mustafa Yilmaz, Mahir Akyildiz, Enis Yetkin

Virtual neck exploration in patients with hyperparathyroidism and former cervical operations

Gerd Wimmer, Reto Bale, Peter Kovacs, Michael Gabriel, Daniel Putzer, Tonja Sauper, Michael Sieb, Christoph Profanter, Raimund Margreiter, Rupert Prommegger

Is central neck dissection a safe procedure in the treatment of papillary thyroid cancer? Our experience

N. Palestini, A. Borasi, L. Cestino, M. Freddi, C. Odasso, A. Robecchi

Can the early reduction of tumour markers predict outcome in surgically treated sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma?

Per Bümming, Håkan Ahlman, Bengt Nilsson, Ola Nilsson, Bo Wängberg, Svante Jansson

99Tc Nanocolloid sentinel node procedure in thyroid carcinoma

Isabella Merante Boschin, Antonio Toniato, Andrea Piotto, Eric Casal Ide, Dario Casara, AnnaMaria Guolo, Domenico Rubello, MariaRosa Pelizzo

Serum 1-84 and 7-84 parathyroid hormone concentrations and bone in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism

A. Blachowicz, W. Chudzinski, I. Nawrot, B. Kryszalowicz, U. Spiechowicz, J. Szmidt, A. Wiecek, E. Franek

Partial thyroidectomy under local anaesthesia—the analysis of 49 subsequent cases

Tomasz Banasiewicz, Wiktor Meissner, Przemysław Pyda, Tomasz Wierzbicki, Michał Głyda, Mikołaj Musiał, Szymon Smoliński, Katarzyna Iwanik, Michał Drews

The estimation of the thyroid volume before surgery—an important prerequisite for minimally invasive thyroidectomy

M. Ruggieri, A. Fumarola, A. Straniero, A. Maiuolo, I. Coletta, A. Veltri, A. Di Fiore, P. Trimboli, P. Gargiulo, M. Genderini, M. D’Armiento

Routine preoperative 123I-MIBG scintigraphy for patients with phaeochromocytoma is not necessary

Radu Mihai, Fergus Gleeson, Derek Roskell, Andrew Parker, Greg Sadler

Characteristics of well-differentiated thyroid cancer associated with multinodular goiter

Shih-Ping Cheng, Chien-Liang Liu, Chi-Yuan Tzen, Tsen-Long Yang, Kuo-Shyang Jeng, Tsang-Pai Liu, Jie-Jen Lee

Does the risk of compressive hematoma after thyroidectomy authorize 1-day surgery?

Pierre Leyre, Thibault Desurmont, Louis Lacoste, Chiara Odasso, Gauthier Bouche, Anthony Beaulieu, Alexandre Valagier, Charalambos Charalambous, Hélène Gibelin, Bertrand Debaene, Jean-Louis Kraimps

Cost-effectiveness of scan-directed parathyroidectomy

Radu Mihai, Mary Weisters, Michael J. Stechman, Fergus Gleeson, Greg Sadler

Intrathyroidal hematopoiesis: a rare histological finding in an otherwise healthy patient and review of the literature

Christina C. Westhoff, Elias Karakas, Carsten Dietz, Peter J. Barth

Surgical management of mediastinal goiter: risk factors for sternotomy

Stanisław Cichoń, Ryszard Anielski, Aleksander Konturek, Marcin Baczyński, Wojciech Cichoń, Paweł Orlicki

12th Annual Meeting on Surgical Research/12. Chirurgische Forschungstage: Chirurgische Forschung — Brückenschlag zwischen Klinik, Forschung und Industrie, 25.–27. September 2008, Freiburg i. Breisgau, Germany