Pearls and Pitfalls in Head and Neck Surgery—Practical Tips to Minimize Complications

Cernea (head and neck surgery, U. of Sao Paulo, Brazil) aids head and neck surgeons, otolaryngologists, neurosurgeons, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons, radiation and clinical oncologists, and general physicians, as well as students and residents, in the management of head and neck tumors by providing 101 brief chapters outlining pearls and pitfalls. These are related to the thyroid and parathyroid glands; neck metastases; oral/oropharyngeal, laryngeal, nasopharyngeal, salivary gland, skull base, vascular, and parapharyngeal space tumors; infections; tracheostomy; and reconstruction. This edition has been expanded to include new topics such as video-assisted thyroidectomy, robotic surgery, and management of the neck after organ preservation treatment, as well as new chapters on intraoperative frozen section examination in thyroid surgery, robotic thyroidectomy, the surgical management of recurrent/persistent differentiated thyroid cancer, lymph node density, the influence of human papillomavirus status on the management of oropharyngeal tumors, salvage surgery after chemoradiotherapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, supratracheal subtotal laryngectomy, hypopharyngeal cancers, robotic nasopharyngectomy, interventional sialendoscopy, the endonasal endoscopic approach for juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma, transnasal endoscopic approaches to the skull base, and performing a supraclavicular fasciocutaneous flap for head and neck reconstruction. Contributors are surgeons from around the world. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)