HNS - Head and Neck Surgery, Larynx and Others

The course provides overview of technique of thyroid surgery including both standard and up-to-date modern methods including not-cold instruments (harmonic knife), miniinvasive methods, endoscopic thyroid surgery. The extent of surgery (total thyroidectomy, hemithyroidectomy) is discussed. Various procedures for identification of the recurrent nerve (including nerve monitoring) and parathyroid glands are shown. The question how to drain (if any) the wound is gone over. Finally special focus is aimed at dealing with complications—recurrent nerve palsy (unilateral, bilateral), parathyroid gland injury.