The estimation of the thyroid volume before surgery - An important prerequisite for minimally invasive thyroidectomy

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 393, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 721-724

  Ruggieri, M ^a   Fumarola, A ^b   Straniero, A ^a   Maiuolo, A ^a   Coletta, I ^b   Veltri, A ^b   Di Fiore, A ^b   Trimboli, P ^b   Gargiulo, P ^b   Genderini, M ^c   D'Armiento, M ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ASL RM E Thyroid Diseases Study Group   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mathematical formula; Minimally invasive thyroidectomy; MIVAT; Thyroid volume; Ultrasound estimation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID GLAND; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROIDECTOMY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CICATRIX; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 51449117016     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0399-y     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. P Miccoli P Berti G Materazzi M Minuto L Barellino 2004 Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy: five years of experience J Am Coll Surg 199 243 248
2. M Gagner WB Inabnet III 2001 Endoscopic thyroidectomy for solitary thyroid nodules Thyroid 11 161 163
3. R Bellantone C Lombardi M Raffaeli M Boscherini C De Crea E Traini 2002 Video-assisted thyroidectomy J Am Coll Surg 194 610 614
4. M Ruggieri A Straniero M Genderini M D'Armiento A Fumarola P Trimboli P Gargiulo 2007 The eligibility of MIVA approach in thyroid surgery Langenbecks Arch Surg 392 413 416
5. World Health Organization (1994) Indicators for assessing iodine deficiency disorders and their control through salt iodization. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (Document No WHO/NUT94.6)
6. W Shabana E Peeters M De Maeseneer 2006 Measuring thyroid gland volume: should we change the correction factor Am J Roentgenol 186 234 236
7. JW Van Isselt JM de Klerk PP van Rijk APG van Gils LJ Polman C Kamphuis R Mejier FJ Beekman 2003 Comparison of methods for thyroid volume estimation in patients with Graves' disease Eur Nucl Med Mol Imaging 30 525 531
8. M Sheikh SAR Doi T Sinan KAS Al-Shoumer 2004 Technical observation on the assessment of thyroid volume by palpation and ultrasonography J Ultrasound Med 23 261 266
9. B Nygaard T Nygaard M Court-Payen L Ingeman Jensen P Søe-Jensen K Gerhard Nielsen M Fugl L Hegedus 2002 Thyroid volume measured by ultrasonography and CT Acta Radiol 43 269 274
10. T Rago W Bencivelli M Scutari C Di Cosmo C Rizzo P Berti P Miccoli A Pinchera P Vitti 2006 The newly developed three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) thyroid ultrasound are strongly correlated, but 2D overestimates thyroid volume in the presence of nodules J Endocrinol Invest 29 423 426
11. MC Brown R Spencer 1978 Thyroid gland estimated by use of ultrasound in addition to scintigraphy Acta Radiol Oncol Rad Phys Biol 17 337 341
12. J Brunn U Block G Ruf I Bos WP Kunze PC Scriba 1981 Volumetric analysis of thyroid lobes by real-time ultrasound Dt med Wschr 106 1338 1340
13. S Schlogl E Werner M Lessmann J Terekhova S Muffert S Seybold C Reiners 2001 The use of three-dimensional ultrasound for thyroid volumetry Thyroid 11 569 574
14. P Miccoli M Minuto C Orlandini D Galleri M Massi P Berti 2006 Ultrasonography estimated thyroid volume: a prospective study about its reliability Thyroid 16 37 39
15. E Hussy E Voth H Schicha 2000 Sonography determination of thyroid volume: comparison with surgical data Nuklearmedizin 39 102 107
16. P Trimboli M Ruggieri A Fumarola M D'Alò A Straniero A Maiuolo S Ulisse M D'Armiento 2001 A mathematical formula to estimate in vivo thyroid volume from two-dimensional ultrasonography Thyroid 18 8 879 882
17. W Shabana E Peeters P Verbeek MM Osteaux 2003 Reducing inter-observer variation in thyroid volume calculation using a new formula and technique Eur J Ultrasound 16 207 210
18. S Schlögl P Andermann M Luster C Reiners M Lassmann 2006 A novel thyroid phantom for ultrasound volumetry: determination of intraobserver and interobserver variability Thyroid 16 41 46