VIII. GUIDELINES FOR SURGERY (by Istvan Gal)

I. Surgical anatomy of the thyroid gland
II. Surgical treatment of nodular goiter
    1. Endemic goiter
    2. Non-endemic goiter
    3. Solitary thyroid nodule
III. Surgical treatment of goiter with thyroid dysfunction
    1. Hyperthyroidism: Graves's disease and Toxic Nodular Goiter
    2. Hypothyroidism
IV.Thyroiditis
    1. Acute and Subacute Thyroiditis
    2. Chronic thyroiditis
    3. Riedel's thyroiditis
V. Tumors of follicular cell orgin
    1. Follicular neoplasms
    2. Oxyphilic (Hurthle-cell) adenoma and carcinoma
    3. Papillary carcinoma
    4. Anaplastic carcinoma
VI. Tumors of non-follicular cell origin
    1. Medullary carcinoma
    2. Non-Hodgkin malignant lymphoma of the thyroid
    3. Metastatic tumors to the thyroid
VII. Other rare tumors