Society guideline links: Thyroid surgery

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Thyroid nodules and cancer".)

International

●International Neural Monitoring Study Group (INMSG): Guideline part I – Staging bilateral thyroid surgery with monitoring loss of signal (2018)

●INMSG: Guidelines part II – Optimal recurrent laryngeal nerve management for invasive thyroid cancer: Incorporation of surgical, laryngeal, and neural electrophysiologic data (2018)

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Society (ERAS Society): Consensus review and recommendations on optimal perioperative care in major head and neck cancer surgery with free flap reconstruction (2017)

●INMSG: Standards guideline statement on external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve monitoring during thyroid and parathyroid surgery (2013)

Canada

●Canadian consensus statement on the management of radioactive iodine–resistant differentiated thyroid cancer (2021)

United States

●National Cancer Institute (NCI): Childhood thyroid cancer treatment (PDQ) – Health professional version (updated 2022)

●NCI: Thyroid cancer treatment (adult) (PDQ) – Health professional version (updated 2022)

●American Thyroid Association (ATA): Guidelines for management of patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer (2021)

●American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES): Guidelines for the definitive surgical management of thyroid disease in adults (2020)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on thyroid disease (2018)

●American Head and Neck Society (AHNS) and British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS): Definitive multidisciplinary joint consensus guidelines on optimizing outcomes in reoperative parathyroid surgery (2018)

●ATA: Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of thyroid disease during pregnancy and the postpartum (2017)

●ATA: 2015 management guidelines for adult patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer (published 2016)

●ATA: Guidelines for diagnosis and management of hyperthyroidism and other causes of thyrotoxicosis (2016)

●ATA: Management guidelines for children with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer (2015)

●ATA: Revised guidelines for the management of medullary thyroid carcinoma (2015)

●ATA: Statement on preoperative imaging for thyroid cancer surgery (2015)

●ATA: Statement on surgical application of molecular profiling for thyroid nodules – Current impact on perioperative decision making (2015)

●ATA: Statement on optimal surgical management of goiter (2014)

●ATA: Statement on outpatient thyroidectomy (2013)

●ATA: Consensus review and statement regarding the anatomy, terminology, and rationale for lateral neck dissection in differentiated thyroid cancer (2012)

●ATA: Statement on the essential elements of interdisciplinary communication of perioperative information for patients undergoing thyroid cancer surgery (2012)

●ATA: Consensus statement on the terminology and classification of central neck dissection for thyroid cancer (2009)

Europe

●European Thyroid Association (ETA): Guideline for the management of pediatric Graves' disease (2022)

United Kingdom

●Difficult Airway Society (DAS), British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS), and British Association of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (ENT-UK): Systematic review and multidisciplinary consensus guidelines for the management of haematoma after thyroid surgery (2022)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on thyroid cancer – Assessment and management (2022)

●BAETS: Position statement on daycase hemithyroidectomy (2020)

●American Head and Neck Society (AHNS) and BAETS: Definitive multidisciplinary joint consensus guidelines on optimizing outcomes in reoperative parathyroid surgery (2018)

●United Kingdom national multidisciplinary guidelines for the management of thyroid cancer (2016)

●British Thyroid Association (BTA): Guidelines for the management of thyroid cancer, 3rd edition (2014)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on minimally invasive video‑assisted parathyroidectomy (2014)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (2014)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Endocrine Surgery (JAES) and Japanese Society of Thyroid Surgery (JSTS): Thyroid tumor care guidelines (2018)