619-620
Editorial
Endocrine surgery
Bertil Hamberger
621-626
Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery
Minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid surgery is not a question of length of the incision
Jean–François Henry
627-631
Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery
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 and Carmela De Crea, et al.
633-638
Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery
The usefulness of preoperative ultrasonographic identification of nonrecurrent inferior laryngeal nerve in neck surgery
Maurizio Iacobone, Giovanni Viel, Simone Zanella, Marzia Bottussi and Mauro Frego, et al.
639-645
Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery
Intraoperative PTH monitoring during parathyroidectomy: the need for stricter criteria to detect multiglandular disease
Celestino Pio Lombardi, Marco Raffaelli, Emanuela Traini, Enrico Di Stasio and Cinzia Carrozza, et al.
647-654
Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials
Minimally invasive video-assisted thyreoidectomy (MIVAT) with and without use of harmonic scalpel—a randomized study
Marcin Barczyński, Aleksander Konturek and Stanisław Cichoń
655-658
Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials
Ligasure versus Ultracision® in thyroid surgery: a prospective randomized study
Paola Vincenza Sartori, Sergio De Fina, Giovanni Colombo, Francesco Pugliese and Fabrizio Romano, et al.
659-666
Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials
Focused versus conventional parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism: a prospective, randomized, blinded trial
Algirdas Slepavicius, Virgilijus Beisa, Vinsas Janusonis and Kestutis Strupas
667-673
Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials
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 and E. Reihnér, et al.
675-680
Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials
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 and Anders Bergenfelz
681-685
Original Article
The recurrent laryngeal nerve and the inferior thyroid artery—anatomical variations during surgery
Ozer Makay, Gokhan Icoz, Mustafa Yilmaz, Mahir Akyildiz and Enis Yetkin
687-692
Original Article
Virtual neck exploration in patients with hyperparathyroidism and former cervical operations
Gerd Wimmer, Reto Bale, Peter Kovacs, Michael Gabriel and Daniel Putzer, et al.
693-698
Original Article
Is central neck dissection a safe procedure in the treatment of papillary thyroid cancer? Our experience
N. Palestini, A. Borasi, L. Cestino, M. Freddi and C. Odasso, et al.
699-703
Original Article
Can the early reduction of tumour markers predict outcome in surgically treated sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma?
Per Bümming, Håkan Ahlman, Bengt Nilsson, Ola Nilsson and Bo Wängberg, et al.
705-708
Original Article
99Tc Nanocolloid sentinel node procedure in thyroid carcinoma
Isabella Merante Boschin, Antonio Toniato, Andrea Piotto, Eric Casal Ide and Dario Casara, et al.
709-713
Original Article
Serum 1-84 and 7-84 parathyroid hormone concentrations and bone in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism
A. Blachowicz, W. Chudzinski, I. Nawrot, B. Kryszalowicz and U. Spiechowicz, et al.
715-719
Endocrine Surgery
Partial thyroidectomy under local anaesthesia—the analysis of 49 subsequent cases
Tomasz Banasiewicz, Wiktor Meissner, Przemysław Pyda, Tomasz Wierzbicki and Michał Głyda, et al.
721-724
Original Article
The estimation of the thyroid volume before surgery—an important prerequisite for minimally invasive thyroidectomy
M. Ruggieri, A. Fumarola, A. Straniero, A. Maiuolo and I. Coletta, et al.
725-727
Original Article
Routine preoperative 123I-MIBG scintigraphy for patients with phaeochromocytoma is not necessary
Radu Mihai, Fergus Gleeson, Derek Roskell, Andrew Parker and Greg Sadler
729-732
Original Article
Characteristics of well-differentiated thyroid cancer associated with multinodular goiter
Shih-Ping Cheng, Chien-Liang Liu, Chi-Yuan Tzen, Tsen-Long Yang and Kuo-Shyang Jeng, et al.
733-737
Original Article
Does the risk of compressive hematoma after thyroidectomy authorize 1-day surgery?
Pierre Leyre, Thibault Desurmont, Louis Lacoste, Chiara Odasso and Gauthier Bouche, et al.
739-743
Original Article
Cost-effectiveness of scan-directed parathyroidectomy
Radu Mihai, Mary Weisters, Michael J. Stechman, Fergus Gleeson and Greg Sadler
745-749
Case Management and Clinical Consequences
Intrathyroidal hematopoiesis: a rare histological finding in an otherwise healthy patient and review of the literature
Christina C. Westhoff, Elias Karakas, Carsten Dietz and Peter J. Barth
751-757
Letter to the Editor
Surgical management of mediastinal goiter: risk factors for sternotomy
Stanisław Cichoń, Ryszard Anielski, Aleksander Konturek, Marcin Baczyński and Wojciech Cichoń, et al.
759-815
Abstracts
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