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




Instructional course

Instructional course 1: Basic Thyroid Ultrasound Moderator Paiboon Sureepong
Basic Ultrasound in thyroid and neck Pornpim Korprapong (RAD Thai)
Ultrasound thyroid by surgeon Worawat Rawangban (ENT Thai)
The Clinical Impact of Elastosonography in Thyroid Surgery Soe tin (ENT Myanmar)
A novel method of assessing voice changes after thyroid surgery using ultrasound tools Takahiro Fukuhara (ENT Japan)
Instructional course 2: Intraoperative Neural monitoring From basic to advance Moderator Che-Wei Wu / Prachya Maneeprasopchoke
How to train IONM Tzu Yen Huang (ENT Taiwan)
Anesthesia in IONM Sawita Kanavitoon (ANES Thai)
IONM in RLN/SLN Chang Myeon Song (ENT Korea)
Development of novel intraoperative neuromonitoring system Byung-Joo Lee (ENT Korea)
Instructional course 3:Nonsurgical management of thyroid nodule: Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA), microwave, alcohol injection Moderator Boonsam Roongpuvapaht
Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) Jason Chan (ENT Hong Kong)
Microwave ablation Hong-Cheng Wang (ENT China)
Alcohol injection Somrach Thamtorawat (RAD Thailand)
HIFU Panus Binsirawanich (ENT Thailand)
Instructional course 4: How to set up remote access thyroid surgery Chairman/Moderator Suthep Udomsawaengsup, Suchart Chantawibul
How I become an expert in endoscopic  thyroidectomy: from zero to hero Hok Nam Li (ENT Hong Kong)
Transoral robotic thyroidectomy: how to start Dong Won Lee (ENT Korea)
The promotion and application of Thyroidectomy by GUA in China Chuan Ming Zheng (ENT China)
How to overcome the learning curve from TORS to BABA robotic thyroidectomy: How to start Chih-Chun Wang (ENT Taiwan)