[Minimally invasive open thiroydectomy--our initial experience].

Unlabelled: A crescent number of reports concerning the use of minimally invasive approach in thyroid surgery arise in the last years.

Aim: This report describes the recently developed technique of minimally invasive open thyroidectomy and represents our initial experience.

Patients And Methods: Thirty seven patients underwent a minimally invasive open thyroidectomy in the Clinic of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Varna between February the 1th and May the 31th, 2003.

[Hashimoto's thyroiditis: indications for surgical treatment].

Background: Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is the prototypical example of autoimmune thyroiditis and the primary way to treat the disease is conservative. However, there are patients with HT, in which surgical treatment is mandatory.

Aim: Summarizing our institutional experience, to formulate the indications for surgical treatment of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

[Minimally invasive non-endoscopic thyroid resections].

Unlabelled: The interest in the application of the minimally invasive procedures in the thyroid surgery vastly increased in recent years.

Aim: To present our experience with the application of minimally invasive nonendoscopic resections in the thyroid surgery.

Material And Methods: 145 patients with various thyroid diseases were operated on with minimally invasive open approach for the period from 1 Janyary 2003 to 30 June 2004 in our institution.

[Argon plasma thyroid resections--main points and advantages].

Unlabelled: Here in we present our experience with a new surgical technique of Argon Plasma Thyroid Resections which was developed in our institution to avoid the use of lots of haemostatic instruments and various size blood vessels ligations.

Aim: To demonstrate the results we achieved and the advantages of APR, compared with the conventional thyroid resection.

Material And Methods: For the period from 01.

[The application of argon plasma coagulation in thoracic surgery: principles, surgical technique and clinical results].

Background: In recent years, together with the well-known high-frequency electro-coagulation, the application of plasma coagulation has been also introduced in the clinical practice. The argon plasma coagulator (APC) is one of the representatives of this surgical technique. By its nature, the APC represents a non-contact electrothermal tissue coagulation, combining the principle of the augmented surface and enhanced autogenous haemostatic mechanisms.