Overview

The Department of Head and Neck Surgery of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, affiliated with Zhejiang University School of Medicine was founded in 1995 by Dr. Gao Li, a well-known professor in the country. The department currently has 22 doctors (all of whom have a doctorate or master's degree), including 2 chief physicians and 4 associate chief physicians; 60 approved beds, more than 56,000 outpatient visits per year, and nearly 3,000 thyroid cancer surgeries per year. The workload has been at the forefront of the province for several consecutive years. The current department director is Dr. Xie Lei.

Technical Advantages:

It is the first department to carry out minimally invasive lateral neck dissection, upper mediastinal dissection and parapharyngeal lymph node dissection in China, which avoids damage to the appearance of the neck and thoracotomy. We routinely perform transoral thyroidectomy, modified gasless unilateral axillary approach endoscopic thyroid surgery, and thyroidectomy using the sub-clavian approach; surgery for locally advanced or recurrent thyroid cancer. In the aspect of intraoperative in situ preservation of parathyroid glands, we have pioneered the concept of "thymus-vascular-hypoparathyroid gland level", which has significantly reduced the incidence of postoperative hypoparathyroidism and has attracted the attention of domestic and foreign counterparts. We fully integrate preoperative B-ultrasound, B-ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration and NGS for thyroid cancer to achieve a comprehensive and refined preoperative assessment of thyroid cancer. We routinely carry out endoscopic-assisted oral and maxillofacial tumor surgery and open reduction and internal fixation of oral and maxillofacial fractures.

Research Interests：

Our team is committed to the minimally invasive and refined reconstruction of thyroid surgery and oral and maxillofacial tumors, and fracture surgery; the improvement of parathyroid in situ preservation or distant transplantation; further improvement of the individualized, sophisticated preoperative evaluation of thyroid cancer; exploratory implementation by gradually upgrading a simple patient information database into a clinical decision support system (CDSS) to provide detailed evidence for improving the quality of diagnosis and treatment; the development of a dynamic observation system for low-risk micropapillary thyroid cancer, which avoids Excessive surgical treatment and ensures scientific assessment and effective management in follow-up.

Thyroid Surgery

Our department provides refined and individualized preoperative evaluation of thyroid cancer; we have various minimally invasive surgical methods for thyroid cancer such as endoscopic-assisted transoral, transaxillary, supraclavicular, and anterior neck incisions and allow personalized selection based on patients’individual situation. We have the most comprehensive post-operative follow-up review system for thyroid cancer in China, as well as a dynamic observation system for low-risk small papillary thyroid carcinomas.

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Endoscopic assisted minimally invasive and concealing incision Submandibular gland and Parotid gland surgery

Endoscopic-assisted small-incision maxillofacial fracture resection and internal fixation

Comprehensive treatment of oral cancer: targeted therapy for oral cancer, perioperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy, radical oral cancer surgery and metastatic flap repair