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Referring a patient for transoral surgery
Who is a good candidate, what to send, and how to reach each surgeon.
Typical candidates
- Benign nodules up to about 6 cm
- Differentiated thyroid cancer generally under 2 cm without nodal or extrathyroidal disease
- Graves' disease
- Localized primary hyperparathyroidism
Helpful to send
Ultrasound report and images, FNA cytology, TSH and free T4, calcium and PTH for parathyroid patients, localization imaging.
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