Thyroid diseases

Not every thyroid disease requires surgery – many can also be treated with medication. Surgery is performed for unclear or suspicious nodules, Graves' disease, significantly enlarged thyroid with pressure symptoms, or parathyroid overactivity.

Therapy: Common procedures include radiofrequency ablation (cooking of the nodule) or surgical removal. Surgeries are performed in a tissue and vocal cord-sparing manner with microinstruments. During the operation, the vocal cord nerves are monitored both acoustically and visually using neuromonitoring. With intraoperative rapid section techniques, the tissue can be examined during the operation and the procedure can be refined if necessary.

The diagnostics include: palpation and blood tests, high-resolution ultrasound, scintigraphy, fine needle aspiration, or core biopsy.