Symposium 1
Papillary microcarcinoma
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Chair: Akira Miyauch
Kyung Tae
Sen-Tien Tsai |
Active surveillance of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma. Where are we standing now?
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Young Kee Shong
(Korea) |
Progress in studies on active surveillance of papillary microcarcinoma.
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Yasuhiro Ito (Japan) |
Management of Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinomas - What are the Issues?
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Christopher Goh (Singapore) |
Strategy of surgical treatment of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma
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Ming-Hua Ge (China) |
Symposium 2
Current trends of thyroidectomy |
Chair: Subramania Iyer
Phil Sang Chung
Bor-Hwang Kang |
Hemithyroidectomy for papillary thyroid cancers- perceptions among patients and health professionals and analysis of adverse histopathological features
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Subramania Iyer (India) |
How to decide treatment plan for T1 PTC.
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Phil Sang Chung (Korea) |
Outcome of Thyroid cancer in developing world
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Pankaj Chaturvedi (India) |
Management of differentiated thyroid carcinoma according to current guidelines
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Ahmet Omer Ikiz (Turkey) |
Lobectomy versus total thyroidectomy for micropapillary thyroid cancer
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Guleser Saylam (Turkey) |
Lobectomy in papillary thyroid carcinoma |
Soon Hyun Ahn (Korea) |
Symposium 3
Parathyroid 1 |
Chair: Brendan C. Stack
Kang Dae Lee
Wan-Fu Su |
Parathyroids: Collateral Damage in Thyroid Cancer Surgery
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Brendan C. Stack (USA) |
Parathyroid gland mapping with near-infrared autofluorescence in thyroid and parathyroid surgery |
Kang Dae Lee (Korea) |
The history and evolution of parathyroid surgery.
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Julie Miller (Australia) |
Post Operative Hypoparathyriodism & management, our perspective
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Dewan Mahmud Hasan (Bangladesh) |
Postoperative hypoparathyroidism after total thyroidectomy
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Naoki Otsuki (Japan) |
Extracervical location of parathyroid adenoma: our experience from more than 3000 cases
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Ilya V. Sleptsov (Russia) |
Symposium 4
Endoscopic and robotic surgery 1 |
Chair: Gregory W. Randolph
Quan-Yang Duh |
The current status of gasless trans-axillary robotic thyroidectomy & the initial experience of trans-oral robotic thyroidectomy.
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Woong Youn Chung (Korea) |
Anticipation for Changing Paradigm of Remote Access Thyroid Surgery in the era of 4th Industrial Revolution |
Yoon Woo Koh (Korea) |
Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy (TORT) |
Hoon Yub Kim (Korea) |
Precision medicine in endoscopic and robotic surgery of thyroid and parathyroid diseases: Patient-tailored and tumor-targeted approaches |
Tsung-Lin Yang (Taiwan) |
Symposium 5
Management of benign thyroid tumors |
Chair: Kenji Okami
Pankaj Chaturvedi
Tzer-Zen Hwang |
Thyroidectomy, to do or not to do? |
Chun-Hung Hua (Taiwan) |
Thyroid nodule evaluation and extent of surgery
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Joseph Scharpf (USA) |
When you need sternotomy in retrosternal goiter |
Eddy Wong (Hong Kong) |
Retrosternal Goitre - Surgical Experience
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Belayat Hossain Siddiquee (Bangladesh) |
Surgical approach for retrosternal goitre
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Rohaizak Muhammad (Malaysia) |
Symposium 6
Management of advanced thyroid cancer
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Chair: Mikio Suzuki
Chen-Chi Wang |
Surgical and medical treatment of locally advanced thyroid cancer
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Mikio Suzuki (Japan) |
Advanced Carcinoma Thyroid Our Experience
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Kamrul Hassan Tarafder (Bangladesh) |
The Management of Invasive Thyroid Carcinoma
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Scott Coman (Australia) |
Management of locally invasive WDTC
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Il-Seok Park (Korea) |
New modalities for the treatment of advanced and refractory thyroid cancers |
Hang-Seok Chang (Korea) |
Treatment of locally advanced/metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma.
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Zhuming Guo (China) |
Symposium 7
Airway reconstruction after thyroidectomy
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Chair: Mu-Kuan Chen
Hiroya Kitano
Luiz P. Kowalski |
Management and function preservation surgery for the locally advanced thyroid cancer |
Min-Sik Kim (Korea) |
Surgical management for thyroid cancer invading trachea, results and complications |
Cheerasook Chongkolwatana (Thailand) |
The fate of the chronically compressed trachea after thyroidectomy. |
Siu Kwan NG (Hong Kong) |
Operative Management and Functional Reconstruction of Locally Advanced Thyroid Cancer. |
Chao Li (China) |
Symposium 8
Surgical technique of thyroidectomy |
Chair: Dan M. Fliss
Khoon Leong Ng
Eddy Wong |
The quest for a reliable surgical landmark of external laryngeal branch of superior laryngeal nerve in thyroid surgery |
Siu Kwan NG (Hong Kong) |
Therapeutic ipsilateral level VI Neck for WDTC Is contralateral elective Neck Dissection indicated |
Dan M. Fliss (Israel) |
Sonography also helps the surgeon to do a better job (thyroid surgery)
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Cheng-Ping Wang (Taiwan) |
Traveling characteristics of non-recurrent laryngeal nerves.
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Ki Hwan Hong (Korea) |
Comparison of 2 different types of surface electrodes during monitored total thyroidectomy with different anesthesiologists
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Hsin-An Chen (Taiwan) |
Symposium 9
Recent advance in IONM
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Chair: Feng-Yu Chiang
Jenq-Yuh Ko
Yih-Huei Uen |
Using of continuous IONM in transoral thyroidectomy |
Yih-Huei Uen (Taiwan) |
IONM with different types of electrodes (needle vs. tube) and probes (monopolar vs. bipolar)
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Ozer Makay (Turkey) |
Development of novel IONM system with detachable nerve stimulator and surface pressure bio-sensor
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Byung Joo Lee (Korea) |
IONM in endoscopic thyroidectomy- How I do it?
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Daqi Zhang (China) |
Symposium 10
Recurrent and metastatic thyroid Ca |
Chair: Ching-Ping Wang
Shih-Horng Huang
Joseph Scharpf |
Paratracheal recurrence patterns following total thyroidectomy with therapeutic level II - IV Neck Dissection. |
Dan M. Fliss (Israel) |
Natural History of Contralateral Nodules after Lobectomy in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
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Gideon Bachar (Israel) |
Safe Thyroidectomy - Revised Anatomy for Thyroid Surgeons. |
Madan Kapre (India) |
Recurrent thyroid disease management
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Joseph Scharpf (USA) |
The treatment of bone metastases from differentiated thyroid carcinoma
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Yorihisa Orita (Japan) |
Management of Thyroid Cancer Cervical Lymph Node Metastases: Why are we not improving outcomes? |
Ralph Tufano (USA) |
Symposium 11
Thyroidectomy-state of the art technique
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Chair: Stella, Chin-Shaw Tsai
Khee Chee Soo
Shyh-Kuan Tai |
Application of energy-based devices in thyroidectomy |
Shyh-Kuan Tai (Taiwan) |
Use of energy devices in thyroid surgeries |
Huang Xinyong (Singapore) |
Management of thyroid cancer with de novo distant metastasis: My personal experience
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Hwa-Tsung Chen (Taiwan) |
Energy Devices in Thyroid Surgery- Controlled Retrospective Series |
John Chaplin (New Zealand) |
Thyroid surgery through the ages |
Rajeev Parameswaran (Singapore) |
Symposium 12
Trends of thyroid diseases |
Chair: Brendan C. Stack
Eun Chang Choi |
Development of novel therapeutics in intractable thyroid cancer by modulation of anti-death receptor |
Chul-Ho Kim (Korea) |
Childhood and adolescent thyroid cancer occurrence in Fukushima prefecture after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident |
Shinichi Suzuki (Japan) |
Management of advanced thyroid cancer to the aerodigestive tract |
Amy Chen (USA) |
Trends of thyroid diseases |
Pankaj Chaturvedi (India) |
Screening Breast Cancer Patients for Thyroid Cancer, Is it a good idea? |
Brendan C. Stack (USA) |
Symposium 13
Endoscopic and Robotic Surgery 2 |
Chair: Luiz P. Kowalski
Angkoon Anuwong
Se Heon Kim |
Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach (TOETVA): Recent Clinical Update |
Angkoon Anuwong (Thailand) |
Remote Access Thyroid Surgery in the United States: Different than in Asia. |
Quan-Yang Duh (USA |
Minimally Invasive Video Assisted Thyroidectomy (MIVAT): University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital Experience |
Arsenio C. Cabungcal (Philippines) |
Transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy |
Ming-Hsun Wu (Taiwan) |
Endoscopic total thyroidectomy with neck dissection in early thyroid carcinoma treatment, technique and results. |
Tran Ngoc Luong (Vietnam) |
Remote access thyroid surgery. The transfer of the Asian experience to Europe |
Jose Granell (Spain) |
Symposium 14
Prognostic factors of thyroid cancer |
Chair: Yoon Woo Koh
Peir-Rong Chen
Tsung-Te Chung |
Preoperative clinically low risk WDTC: The incidence of post operative clinically significant high risk features |
Dan M. Fliss (Israel) |
RLN invasion in thyroid cancer |
Gregory W. Randolph (USA) |
Molecular genetic systems in the differential diagnosis of nodular thyroid pathology |
Sergey Shevchenko, Japan |
Prognostic factor in the evaluation of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. |
Donatella Casiglia (UAE) |
Residual thyroid volume and risk of postoperative hypoparathyroidism |
Rodney B. Dofitas (Philippines) |
The Bethesda System for reporting thyroid cytopathology: focus on AUS/FLUS |
Su-Jin Shin (Korea) |
Symposium 15
ATA guideline & categorization |
Chair: Ralph Tufano
Woong Youn Chung
Yasuhiro Ito, Japan |
Prognosis of PTC based on TNM staging system (recently, 8th edition was published). |
Yasuhiro Ito (Japan) |
Ajcc Staging In Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: What's New? |
Devendra Chaukar (India) |
Symposium 16
Endoscopic and robotic surgery 3 |
Chair: Hurng-Sheng Wu
Kwang Yoon Jung |
Retroauricular thyroidectomy |
Kwang Yoon Jung (Korea) |
Per-oral endoscopic thyroidectomy : 100 cases preliminary results |
Hurng-Sheng Wu (Taiwan) |
Endoscopic Thyroidectomy via Retro-auricular approach |
Seung-Kuk Baek (Korea) |
Remote Access Thyroidectomy - options and selection |
Constance Teo (Singapore) |
Two years experience of transoral endoscopic thyroid surgery: lessons from trial and error |
Jun Ook Park (Korea) |
Tips of scarless in the neck endoscopic thyroidectomy |
Ping Wang (China) |
Symposium 17
Genetic dx of thyroid cancer |
Chair: Kai-Ping Chang
Chwee Ming Lim
Dauren Adilbay |
Determining the tactics of thyroid cancer treatment on the basis of molecular genetic status |
Sergey Shevchenko (Russia) |
Risk stratification systems in thyroid cancer, prognosis, genetics of thyroid cancer |
Dauren Adilbay (Kazakhstan) |
Genomic landscape of thyroid cancer
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Shih-Ping Cheng (Taiwan)
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Prevalence of mutant BRAFV600E in the papillary thyroid carcinoma with clinical-morphological characteristics correlation in patients from Kazakhstan |
Tlegenov Askar Shindalievich (Kazakhstan) |
Mutational landscape and moleculAr markers in thyroid cancer |
Chwee Ming Lim (Singapore) |
VEGFR2 blockade ameliorates thyroid goitrogenesis |
Jeon Yeob Jang (Korea) |
Symposium 18
Ultrasound and associated procedures |
Chair: Anil Ahuja
Tsung-Lin Yang
Shinichi Suzuki |
Ultrasound-guided tissue sampling for thyroid diseases |
Chun-Nan Chen (Taiwan) |
The relevance of preoperative ultrasound cervical mapping in patients with thyroid cancer. |
Arturo Madrid Moyano (Chile) |
An update on the Value of SONO-Elastography in the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules |
Soe Tin (Myanmar) |
Application of high intensity focused ultrasound ablation in the treatment of benign thyroid diseases |
Brian Lang (Hong Kong) |
Symposium 19
Parathyroid 2 |
Chair: Han Su Kim
Fong-Fu Chou
Che-Wei Wu |
Changes of serum FGF23 and Klotho levels and cacificcation scores of abdominal aorta after parathyroidectomy for secondary hyperparathyroidism |
Fong-Fu Chou (Taiwan) |
Parathyroid preservation during thyroid surgery |
Guk Haeng Lee (Korea) |
Parathyroid gland; the protagonist in the thyroid operative theatre |
Han Su Kim (Korea) |
Tips of preserving the parathyroid glands in thyroid surgery Ashraful Islam, Bangladesh Postoperative hypoparathyroidism |
Rogerio Dedivitis (Brazil) |
A prospective cohort study of novel functional types of parathyroid glands in thyroidectomy: In situ preservation or auto- transplantation? |
Gaosong Wu (China) |
Symposium 20
Management of Neck & Mediastinum 1 |
Chair: Michael J. Odell
Seiichi Yoshimoto
Young Soo Rho |
Right posterior paratracheal lymph nodes metastasis |
Jin-Choon Lee (Korea) |
Management of the neck |
Sefik Hosal (Turkey) |
Central neck dissection in PTC |
Mohammed Al Abdulaziz Shanbari (Saudi Arabia) |
Mediastinal node dissection for thyroid cancer |
Young Soo Rho (Korea) |
Extent of lateral neck dissection in differentiated thyroid carcinoma - Whether level II and/or Vb should be included or not? |
Soon Young Kwon (Korea) |
Tracheomalacia: Myth or reality. Experience of 40 cases |
Amit Agarwal (India) |
Symposium 21
Management of surgical complications |
Chair: Pen-Yuan Chu
Hurng-Sheng Wu
Ming-Lang Shih |
Management of Serum Calcium after total Thyroidectomy |
James Y Suen (USA) |
What causes recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy at thyroidectomy and how to avoid it |
Jonathan Serpell (Australia) |
Severe Hypocalcemia after total parathyroidectomy plus autotransplantation for secondary hyperparathyroidism- risk factors and management |
Fong-Fu Chou (Taiwan) |
Complications of thyroid surgery |
Jan Klozar (Czech Republic) |
Symposium 22
Management of Neck & Mediastinum 2 |
Chair: Sau-Tung Chu
Shigeru Hirano |
Appropriateness of subadventitial resection for invasion the carotid artery by papillary thyroid |
Sueyoshi Moritani (Japan) |
Mediastinal dissection for thyroid cancer |
Shigeru Hirano (Japan) |
Extent of central neck dissection in well differentiated thyroid cancer |
H. Hakan Coskun (Turkey) |
Controversies on Central Neck Dissection in Papillary Thyroid Cancer |
Jin Ho Sohn (Korea) |
Advanced staged thyroid cancers |
Hakan Mehmet Korkmaz (Turkey) |
Surgical technique for mediastinal metastasis |
Seiichi Yoshimoto (Japan) |
Symposium 23
Treatment of thyroid cancer I |
Chair: Young Kee Shong
Jih-Chin Lee
Soe Tin |
The fruits from Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Research Consortium of Japan |
Iwao Sugitani (Japan) |
Anaplastic thyroid cancer |
Andrey Karpenko (Russia) |
Poorly differentiated and anaplastic thyroid cancer |
Nick McIvor (New Zealand) |
Symposium 24
Functional recovery after thyroidectomy |
Chair: Mao-Chang Su
Hsin-Ching Lin
Tuan-Jen Fang |
Function of outer banch of superior laryngeal nerve and protection during operation. |
Jugao Fang (China) |
Minimal invasive vocal fold injection for unilateral vocal fold paralysis |
Chen-Chi Wang (Taiwan) |
Voice changes after thyroidectomy |
Soon Yuhl Nam, Korea |
Voice or swallowing problems after thyroid cancer surgery |
Young Hak Park (Korea) |
Current changing in the management of thyroidectomy related unilateral vocal fold paralysis |
Tuan-Jen Fang (Taiwan) |
How to manage the vocal palsy after thyroid surgery by a laryngologist |
Cheng-Ming Hsu (Taiwan) |
Symposium 25
Thyroid imaging other than Sono |
Chair: Hidenori Inohara
Pa-Chun Wang
Kuen-Yuan Chen |
Thyroid imaging other than Sono |
Wen-Sheng Huang (Taiwan) |
Diagnostic Imaging |
Hidenori Inohara (Japan) |
Clinical significance of PET-CT in recurrent papillary thyroid cancer |
Byung Joo Lee (Korea) |
Initial experience of Pre-Operative Prediction of Cervical Nodal Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer by 99mTc-MIBI SPECT/CT |
Napadon Tangjaturonrasme (Thailand) |
The image diagnosis for primary hyperparathyroidism |
Kuen-Yuan Chen (Taiwan) |
Symposium 26
Future Cooperation |
Chair: Dan M. Fliss
Devendra Arvind Chaukar
Tsung-Lin Yang |
APTS-AHNS Endocrine Section Future Cooperation |
Gregory W. Randolph (USA) |
Using the Communities of Practice Business Model to Improve Thyroid Cancer Care in an Academic Health Sciences Centre |
Michael J. Odell (Canada) |
The EAFO-EASHNO-ECRC experience in promoting training and collaborative research |
Somasundaram Subramanian (Russia) |
Symposium 27
Treatment of thyroid Ca (non-PTC) |
Chair: Gideon Bachar
Hui-Ching Chuang
Ku-Hao Fang |
Surgery for follicular neoplasm: how extensive should it be done. |
Carmelo Barbaccia (UAE) |
Comparisons of surgical results after robot assisted transoral thyroidectomy versus robot assisted bilateral axillo-breast approach thyroidectomy: initial experiences of single institute |
Cheng-Ming Peng (Taiwan) |
Dilemmas in the treatment of Medullary Cancer Thyroid |
Alok Thakar (India) |
Lymph Node Ratio as a Prognostic Factor in Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma patients: A multi-center study |
Prof. Gideon Bachar (Israel) |
Management and outcome of non-PTC thyroid cancer in Taiwan--Results from Taiwan Cancer Registry Database |
Li-Jen Liao (Taiwan) |
Symposium 28
Management of Neck & Mediastinum 2 |
Chair: Wan-Nien Yu
Jeong Pyo Bong
Anand Mishra |
Management of Benign Thyroid Nodules with Radiofrequency Ablation |
Maung Maung Khaing (Myanmar) |
Tall cell variant papillary carcinoma in Indonesia patients , A clinicopathological and survival analysis |
Erwin D Julian (Indonesia) |
Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer |
Deepa Nair (India) |
Robotic thyroidectomy; Transoral vs. Transaxillary approach. |
Sang Wook Kang (Korea) |
Use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in RAI-refractory DTCs with original diagnosis of non- classical papillary thyroid cancer: small serial case reports |
Daniel, Hueng-Yuan Shen (Taiwan) |