15.12.2023 Thessaloniki,
War Museum
Read more: Symposium of Balkan and Black Sea Working Group
Program
09:30- 10:00 Welcome
Session 1: 10:00-11:15
Chairs: Prof. Paolo Miccoli – Prof. Ioannis Koutelidakis – Prof. Antonios Michalopoulos
10:00 – 10:15 The end of the Kocher incision
Prof. Dimitrios Linos
10:15-10:30 Challenges of performing Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy in Georgia.
Prof. Levan Ramishvili
10:30-10:45 Robotic Transaxillary thyroidectomy
Prof. Gabriele Materazzi
10:45-11:00 Retrosternal goiter: when is likely the complete removal without sternotomy.
Dr. Drago Boscic
11:00-11:15 The Role of Remote Acces Thyroid Surgery in the Era of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Prof. Özer Makay
Session 2: 11:30-13:00
Chairs: Dr. Nick Roukounakis – Dr. Ioannis Pliakos – Prof. Kalliopi Kotsa
11:30-11:45 Micro- Papilllary Thyroid Carcinoma – is the surgery still needed?
Prof. Rumen Pandev
11:45-12:00 Postoperative determined high-risk histopathologic features in papillary thyroid carcinoma initially eligible for thyroid lobectomy: a game changer
Prof. Sohail Bakkar
12:00-12:15 Is active surveillance an appropriate option in low risk thyroid cancer – What are the difficulties?
Prof. Ali Ilker Filiz
12:15-12:30 Controversies in Early Stage Thyroid Cancer
Dr. Tomislav Novosel
12:30-12:45 Prognostic factors for intrathyroideal papillary carcinomas
Prof. Nada Santrac
12:45-13:00 Medullary thyroid cancer without desmoplasia. A new pathologic entity?
Dr. Kyriakos Vamvakidis
Session 3: 13:15-14:30
Chairs: Dr. Apostolos Gkoropoulos – Dr. Alexandra Chrysoulidou – Dr. Stavros Karakozis
13:15-13:30 Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Lesion and treatment options
Prof. Manuel Durán Poveda
13:30-13:45 Revision thyroid cancer surgery
Prof. Kursat Gokcan
13:45-14:00 Neural Monitoring and TOETVA: Tips and Trick
Prof. Atakan Sezer
14:00-14:15 Amyloid goiter: A rare thyroid pathology
Dr. Armen Warzhapetyan
14:15-14:30 The role of artificial intelligence in the diagnostic and treatment of thyroid cancer.
Prof. Alexandru Grigorovici
Session 4: 14:45-16:00
Chairs: Dr. Michalis Katsamakas – Dr. Zoe Efstathiadou – Prof. Ioannis Iakovou
14:45 -15:00 Parathyroid auto fluorescence imaging-Does really change thyroid surgery?
Dr. Efthymios Poulios
15:00 – 15:45 Directions and Propositions in future trials
15:45-16:00 Closing lecture
Prof. Theo Papavramidis
BALKAN & BLACK SEA THYROID CANCER WORKING GROUP 