Ultrasound Diagnostics of Thyroid Diseases

As the basis for this book, the authors have analyzed more than 100,000 ultrasound examinations performed between 1995 and 2008 in patients with thyroid and parathyroid disease, as well as many thousands of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound-guided minimally invasive procedures. The opening chapters include discussion of current ultrasound techniques, pitfalls, and ultrasound examination of the thyroid in children. Detailed attention is then devoted to findings in the normal thyroid and in the presence of diffuse and focal changes. Further chapters focus on such topics as the role of ultrasound after thyroid surgery and ultrasound diagnosis of parathyroid disease, recurrent goiter, and neck masses. Ultrasound-guided minimally invasive techniques, such as fine-needle aspiration biopsy and percutaneous laser ablation, are considered in depth. This up-to-date and richly illustrated book will interest and assist specialists in ultrasound diagnostics, radiologists, endocrinologists, and neck surgeons.

Prof. Vladimir P. Kharchenko is Director of the Russian Scientific Center of Roentgen-Radiology and also Head of the Departments of Oncology and Radiology at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. He earned his PhD at the Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Oncology in 1966, and was subsequently appointed as Chief Scientific Officer and then Head of the surgical clinic at the Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Roentgen-Radiology in 1976. He became a USSR State Prize Winner in 1988, an honoured worker of science of Russia in 1994, and an academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000. Prof. Peter M. Kotlyarov is currently Head of the Diagnostic Department at the Russian Scientific Center of Roentgen-Radiology. Prof. Kotlyarov completed his thesis at the Institute of Medical Radiology, Obninsk, Russia. He subsequently became Chief Scientific Officer at the Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Roentgen-Radiology (from 1975 to 1982) and at the Cardiology Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (from 1982 to 1985). From 1985 to 1997 he was Head of the Department of Radiology at Hospital 83 and of the Department of Roentgenology and Ultrasonography at the Institute of Postgraduate Education, Moscow. Dr. Mikhail S. Mogutov is Head of the Railway Clinic and Assistant Chair of Yaroslavl Medical Academy, Russia. He did his thesis at the Medical Academy in Yaroslavl in 1999. Dr. Mogutov has been a specialist in ultrasound diagnostics since 1985 and has focused especially on the pathology of the endocrine system and emergency pathology of the abdominal cavity. He was Head of the Departments of Ultrasound Diagnostics of Hospitals No. 9 and No. 5 from 1992 to 2003. He was Head of the Yaroslavl branch of the Russian Association of Ultrasound in Medicine from 1996 to 2003. He has been a member of the European Association of Radiologists since 1997. Dr. Alexander N. Sencha is Head of the Department of Ultrasound Diagnostics at the Railway Clinic, Yaroslavl, Russia, and has also been Chief Specialist in Ultrasound Diagnostics at the Medical Department of the Northern Railway since 2005. He commenced work as a radiologist in 1993, focusing on early and differential diagnosis in oncology and thyroid pathologies. He earned his PhD in 2001. He has been a member of the Russian Society of Specialists in Ultrasound Diagnostics in Medicine since 1999, the European Society of Radiologists since 2005, and the Asian Society of Specialists in Ultrasound Diagnostics since 2007. Prof. Yury K. Alexandrov is Head of the Department of Surgery at Yaroslavl Medical Academy, Russia, and Head of the Center of Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery at Yaroslavl Railway Clinic. He earned his PhD in 1997 in Moscow in the field of early diagnosis of diseases of the thyroid gland and use of minimally invasive procedures in nodular goiter. In 2004 he was awarded the diploma for his great contribution to the development of endocrine surgery in Russia, and he has received the Governor's award twice. His current work focuses particularly on the possibilities of radiology in the diagnosis of endocrine pathology, minimally invasive endocrine surgery, and use of lasers in medicine. Dr. Yury N. Patrunov has been a radiologist at the Department of Ultrasound Diagnostics, Railway Clinic, Yaroslavl, Russia since 1999 and earned his PhD in 2000. His work has focused on endocrine ultrasound and minimally invasive modalities. In 2003-2007 he was Assistant Chair of the Course on Ultrasound Diagnostics at the Faculty of Postgraduate Education, Yaroslavl Medical Academy. Since 2006 he has been a consultant of the Department of Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery of Yaroslavl Railway Clinic. He has been a member of the European Society of Radiologists since 2005. He received the Governor's award for excellence in research and technology in 2008. Dr. Dennis V. Belyaev has been a radiologist at the Department of Ultrasound Diagnostics, Railway Clinic, Yaroslavl, Russia since 2001. His principal area of interest is ultrasound diagnosis of vascular and skeletal pathology. He earned his PhD in 2004. He has been a member of the Russian Society of Specialists of Ultrasound Diagnostics in Medicine since 2001.