Past APTS Congress


5th Congress of Asia-Pacific Society of Thyroid Surgery (APTS 2024)
Date: October 3 – 5, 2024
Venue: THE BERKELEY HOTEL PRATUNAM, Bangkok, Thailand
Theme: Precision & Personalized Management
Congress President: Phakdee Sannikorn, Rajavithi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand




Society symposium

Society symposium 1: Taiwan Association of Endocrine Surgeon Symposium TAES Chairman/Moderator Jui-Yu Chen
The integration of preoperative imaging combined with real-time intraoperative detection for parathyroid gland, aims to enhance the success rate of thyroid and parathyroid surgeries Ming-Hsun Wu
The Key to Redo Parathyroidectomy Success: Unveiling Anatomical Variations and Optimizing Surgical Outcomes Si-Yuan Wu
Impact of Thyroid Incidentaloma on Liver Transplant: A Study of 1010 Recipients at a Single Center Chan-Yi Chia
Combined Transarterial Embolization(TAE) and Surgery for Intrathoracic Goiter Yu-Hsien Chen
Society symposium 2: Head & Neck Ultrasound Surgeons Association Launching Symposium Current status of Head & Neck Ultrasound: Where Are We Now? Moderator Jeong Kyu Kim (Korea)
Introduction Tsung-Lin Yang (Taiwan)
Panelists:  
Madoka Furukawa (Japan)  
Eric Lau (Hong Kong)  
Woojin Cho (Korea)  
Tsung-Lin Yang (Taiwan)  
Paiboon Sureepong (Thailand)  
Society symposium 3: Symposium Japan JSHNS: Cutting edge of Japanese thyroid surgery Chairman
Tetsuya Ogawa
Moderator Mikio Suzuki
Our experience of managing thyroid nodules cytologically diagnosed as follicular neoplasm Yasuhiro Ito
Transmanubrial approach for superior mediastinal dissection Takahiro Tsujikawa
Orbeye 4K 3D exoscope for thyroid and parathyroid surgery Ryuhei Okada
Analysis of immune/microenvironment of thyroid cancer Rui Sano
Society symposium 4: Korea Association of Endocrine Surgeons KAES: Updates on Oncoplastic approaches. Chairman
Woong Youn Chung
Moderator Ohjoon Kwon
MOU Signing
(Korea Association of Endocrine Surgeons - Thai Endocrine Surgeons Society)
 
Single-port Transaxillary Robotic Thyroidectomy Kwang Soon Kim
Gas-insufflation one-step single-port transaxillary approach (GOSTA) Young Woo Chang
Transoral robotic thyroidectomy (TORT) Young Jun Chai
Single-port robotic areolar thyroidectomy (SPRA) Sun Min Lee
Reduced port BABA (Bilateral axillo-breast approach) June Young Choi
Society symposium 5: Philippine Thyroid Association and Philippine Academy for Head and Neck Surgery Inc. Session Chair: Ida Marie Lim
Epidemiology of thyroid cancer in the Philippines Nenuel Angelo Luna
Implementation, Evaluation and monitoring of the Philippine Thyroid cancer CPG Ida Marie Lim
Experience in Minimally Invasive Thyroid Surgery in the Philippines Jeffrey Domino
Assuring Quality in Thyroid surgery Christine Joy Arquiza
Experience with RAI ablation therapy in the Philippine setting. Arnel Pauco
Society symposium 6: Indian Society of Thyroid Surgeons (ISTS) Chairman
Jyoti Dabholkar, Richa Vaish
Lectures  
Sternotomy and Mediastinal Node dissection Kaustubh Patel
IONM during thyroid surgery in a resource constrained setting Deepak Sarin
Locally advanced Thyroid Cancers, How aggressive one should be? Vikram Kekatpure
Panel Discussion (45minutes):  Topic: Recurrent Thyroid cancer Chairman
Vikram Kekatpure Moderator Krishnakumar Thankappan
Panelists:  
Jyoti Dabholkar  
Purvi Patel  
Aseem Mishra  
Sourav Dutta  
Aditya Joshipura  
Richa Vaish  
Sowrabh Arora  
Murad Lala  
Society symposium 7: Taiwan Head and Neck Society Moderator Yi Shing Leu Feng Yu Chiang
Surgical Trends and Mortality Rates in Thyroid Cancer: A Taiwanese Perspective Stella Chin Shaw Tsai
The Use of the LigaSureTM Exact Dissector in Neck Dissection for Thyroid Cancer Chih Chun Wang
Voice outcome after thyroid surgery and ablation procedures Hsin Yi Tseng
Taiwan Minimally-invasive diagnosis in thyroid lymphoma - Less is more Chun Nan Chen
Society symposium 8: Korean Society of thyroid-Head and Neck Surgery KSTHNS Nerve Monitoring and Preservation Strategies Chairman/Moderator Kang Dae Lee, Kwang Jae Cho
Importance of recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring in thyroid surgery Eui suk Sung
Strategies for optimizing nerve identification and preservation during thyroidectomy Yong Bae Ji
Utilization of intraoperative neuromonitoring and its impact on postoperative vocal cord function Hyung Shin Lee
Addressing challenges and complications related to nerve injury Sung Chan Shin