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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Join head and neck surgeons, Dr. Lisa Orloff and Dr. David Terris, for a live webcast on technical advances in Parotidectomy and Minimally Invasive Thyroidectomy surgeries. The free one-hour live presentation is scheduled to take place at 3:00 p.m. PDT (6:00 p.m. EDT) from the University of California San Francisco Medical Center in San Francisco, California. (Source: Market Wire - Pharmaceuticals and Biotech)  

Abstract
Background and aims  Patients with sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) have a variable clinical course. Our aim was to analyse the reduction
of tumour markers after thyroidectomy with meticulous dissection and relate it to clinical outcome.

Materials and methods  Twenty consecutive patients with palpable sporadic MTC underwent thyroidectomy with central and uni- or bilateral modified
radical neck dissection; three were subjected to mediastinal dissection. Basal (b-) and stimulated (s-) calcitonin (CT) and

Abstract
Purpose  We evaluated the safety and cost-effectiveness of the harmonic scalpel (HS) during conventional “open” thyroidectomy (CT).

Materials and methods  Two hundred patients scheduled for conventional total thyroidectomy (TT) were included in the study and randomly assigned
to TT with the use of HS (HS group) or with knot tying technique (KT group).