5th International Conference - Multidisciplinary approach on Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands

FINAL PROGRAMME

Thursday, 11th

9.00	Opening ceremony
9.20	Welcome reception
9.45 - 10.10	Chairperson: Randolph, Duick, Seiwert Branovan D. (New York) Thyroid cancer and environmental radiation: The Chernobyl case and beyond
10.10 - 10.35	Pavelić K. (Zagreb) Towards presymptomatic diagnosis of thyroid lesions: The role of high-throughput methods
10.35 - 10.55	Diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodule
10.55 - 11.15	Randolph G. (Boston) Radiographic evaluation of papillary thyroid cancer
11.15 - 11.35	Duick D. (Phoenix) Clinician-performed ultrasound in the evaluation of thyroid nodules
11.35 - 11.55	Knežević-Obad A. (Zagreb) Cytological subtypes of papillary carcinoma-prognostic value
11.55 - 12.20	Duick D. (Phoenix) Updates from the 2007-2008 NCI State of the Art Conference on Thyroid FNA
12.20 - 12.40	Pešutić-Pisac V. (Split) Pathology of rare thyroid tumours
12.40 - 13.00	Seiwert S. (Zagreb) Intraoperative pathology - possibility and limitation
13.00 - 13.30	Skugor M. (Cleveland) Strategies for the follow-up of well-differentiated thyroid cancer
13.30 - 14.30	Lunch
14.30 - 14.50	Chairperson: Kowalski, Simo, Prgomet Milas K. (Cleveland) Sonographic evaluation of lymph nodes before and after surgery for thyroid cancer
14.50 - 15.10	Paunović I. (Beograd) Familial papillary thyroid carcinoma
15.10 - 15.30	Kowalski L. (Sao Paolo) Management of lymph node metastasis in papillary carcinoma of the thyroid
15.30 - 15.50	Prgomet D. (Zagreb) The use of harmonic scalpel in thyroid surgery
15.50 - 16.10	Bellantone R. (Rome) Videoassisted neck dissection
16.10 - 16.30	Romanchishen A. (St.Petersburg) Advantages and risks of prophylactic central lymphadenectomy in thyroid cancer patients
16.30 - 16.50	Simo R. (London) The management of locally advanced thyroid cancer
16.50 - 17.10	Bilić M. (Zagreb) Locally invasive thyroid cancer
17.10 - 17.25	Coffee break
17.25 - 17.45	Chairperson: Romanchishen, Knecht Bura M. (Zagreb) Retrosternal Goiter - transcervical approach
17.45 - 18.05	Simo R. (London) The management of large intrathoracic goiters requiring sternal split
18.05 - 18.25	Romanchishen A. (St.Petersburg) Technique and results of surgical treatment postoperative recurrent goiter (Porg)
18.25 - 18.45	Mladina R. (Zagreb) Dysthyroid orbitopathy: Endonasal endoscopic orbital decompression
18.45 - 19.05	Knecht R. (Frankfurt) Role of induction therapy and target therapy in head and neck cancer

Time for lecture includes 3 minutes for discussion

Friday, 12th

8.00 - 12.00	LIVE SURGERY (sponsored by ERBE Medtronic) Bellantone, Bura, Fliss, Mladina, Prgomet, Romanchishen, Spriano
7.00 - 10.00	Ultrasound Course
12.00 - 13.00	POLIKLINIKA "MEDIKOL" Satelite Symposium
13.00-14.00	Lunch sponsored by Poliklinika Medikol
14.00 - 14.20	Chairperson: Terris, Randolph, Bura Lind P. (Klagenfurt) Impact of multimodality imaging in the follow-up of thyroid cancer". This lecture will include PET/CT but also our results on I-131 SPECT/CT
14.20 - 14.50	Randolph G. (Boston) Thyroid surgical anatomy RLN anatomy and monitoring
14.50 - 15.10	Bura M. (Zagreb) MIT and MIVAT - how to start?
15.10 - 15.40	Terris D. (Augusta) Minimally invasive thyroid surgery: Advances and innovations
15.40 - 16.10	Bellantone R. (Rome) Videoassisted thyiroidectomy
16.10 - 16.25	Coffee break
16.25 - 16.45	Chairperson: Crumley, Shaha, Bellantone Shaha A. (New York) Complications of thyroid surgery and how to avoid them
16.45 - 17.05	Prstačić R. (Zagreb) Superior laryngeal nerve injury
17.05 - 17.25	Lichtenberger, G. (Budapest) Prevention and management of complications by thyroid surgery
17.25 - 17.45	Bellantone R. (Rome) Functional postthyroidectomy syndrome
17.45 - 18.15	Crumley R. (Irvine) Management of RLN paralysis - Special reference to reinervation
18.15 - 18.35	Shaha A. (New York) Management of widely invasive and anaplastic thyroid carcinomas

Time for lecture includes 3 minutes for discussion

Saturday, 13th

8.00 - 8.20	Chairperson: Siperstein, Tomić Brzac, Niederle Kaštelan D. (Zagreb) PTH and calcium homeostasis
8.20 - 8.40	Siperstein A. (Cleveland) Hyperparathyroidism in the new millenium: Essentials of parathyroid anatomy for surgeons
8.40 - 9.00	Siperstein A. (Cleveland) Hyperparathyroidism in the new millenium: Pre-operative parathyroid imaging and the choice of surgical strategy
9.00 - 9.20	Tomić Brzac H. (Zagreb) Preoperative parathyroid diagnosis - role of ultrasound and scintigraphy
9.20 - 9.40	Romanchishen A. (St.Petersburg) Parathyroid adenomas size and its function
9.40 - 10.00	Bellantone R. (Rome) Videoasssited parathyroidectomy
10.10 - 10.40	Niederle B. (Vienna) New concepts in diagnosis and surgical treatment of MTC
10.40 - 11.00	Romanchishen A. (St.Petersburg) Admissible volume of sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) surgical treatment
11.00 - 11.10	Coffee break
11.10 - 12.30	ROUND TABLE Thyroid Cancer 2008 and Beyond Moderator and Introduction Shaha A. Bellantone, Bura, Dodig, Duick, Fliss, Kusić, Prgomet, Randolph
12.30	Closing ceremony

Time for lecture includes 3 minutes for discussion