Aligning perspectives: towards a standardized concept of “complexity” in thyroid surgery. An international web-based survey
Endocrine surgeons recognize the need for a standardized definition of "complexity" in thyroid surgery to enhance risk stratification and care. Perceived complexity varies with proficiency. Collected data support a reproducible framework, to be validated in future studies.
Authors
- Francesco Pedicini
- Paolo Del Rio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6776-5441)
- Gaurav Agarwal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-2670)
- Mehmet Taner Ünlü (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3487-609X)
- François Ansart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5957-2950)
- Anurag Tiwary
- Gianlorenzo Dionigi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0864-6087)
- Agnieszka Dworzyńska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0552-8317)
- Sezer Akbulut (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4362-2240)
- Angeliki Chorti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1028-4476)
- Michele Minuto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4729-7636)
- Somprakas Basu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1903-3438)
- Tariq Madkhali
- Francesco Paolo Prete (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0426-8752)
- Martina T. Mogl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3676-047X)
- Ioannis Christakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4847-1683)
- Agata Dukaczewska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5473-5821)
- Serkan Volkan SARI
- Antonio Toniato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3389-0620)
- Ahmet Cem Dural (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3479-725X)
- Özer Makay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6660-6748)
- Tuğba Matlim Özel
- Han Boon Oh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5268-6700)
- Claudia Armellin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3182-3507)
- I Bombil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4819-0785)
- Maurizio Iacobone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6057-4642)
- Maria Ida Amabile (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-9403)
- Max Schneider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3536-4747)
- Michael Stechman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9067-7725)
- Riccardo Morandi
- Giuseppe Puglisi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6771-5495)
- Alessandro Pasculli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2276-2383)
- Sam Van Slycke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8292-9475)
- Piermarco Papini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4764-2161)
- Sohail Bakkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8479-5901)
- Pierpaolo Di Lascio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9429-8351)
- Luigi Oragano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2528-2708)
- Eleonora Lori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1943-4952)
- Johannes Doerner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0218-4777)
- W Conradie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9220-331X)
- Vasilis Constantinides (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0251-1037)
- Selen Soylu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1459-399X)
- Dieter Morales-García (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6258-5150)
- Ömer Yalkin
- Jordi Vidal Fortuny (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8365-6328)
- Giovanni Cozzolino
- Bojan Kovačević
- Pasquale Cianci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2839-2520)
- Kiyomi Horiuchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8723-1906)
- Elena Toma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5716-9486)
- Tiffany Rui Xuan Gan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6323-5275)
- Gianluca Donatini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6031-9115)
- Gian Luigi Canu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3233-0269)
- Costanza Chiapponi
- Mario Testini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9297-4894)
- Katrin Brauckhoff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2442-3281)
- Claudio Casella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7270-7211)
- Samir Anwar Jabbar
- Arian Mokhtari
- Enrico Battistella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4781-8013)
- Octavian Enciu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3964-2097)
- Federico Cappellacci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8101-8864)
- Giovanna Di Meo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7012-8654)
- Bandar N Alharthi
- Mario Pacilli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1473-6962)
- Graziano Longo
- Elena Bonati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-2962)
- Cristina Martínez-Santos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8027-0948)
- Ludovico Sehnem
- Marco Puccini
- Mustafa Yener Uzunoğlu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8133-2311)
- Nikola Slijepčević (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3999-1062)
- Andreas Muth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0857-1521)
- Andrzej Rafal Hellmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9258-3244)
- Juan Bernar de Oriol
- Enzo Bonadies
- Frank Weber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8285-5544)
- Theodora Margariti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7618-1982)
- Sabaretnam Mayilvaganan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2621-394X)
- Neil Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6776-0977)
- Alessio Giordano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9505-791X)
- Camille Marciniak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2599-709X)
- Manuel Felices
- Agostino Fernicola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3122-5531)
- Loredana De Pasquale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7613-9971)
- A Antonino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4364-6909)
- Sébastien Gaujoux
- Georgi Popivanov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9618-3187)
- Hüseyin Yüce Bircan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-9195)
- Ilia Patrizia Pisano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1380-5046)
- Christian Camenzuli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8491-6061)
- Mechteld C. de Jong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0279-867X)
- Augustas Beiša
- Maria Luisa Altana
- Salvatore Sorrenti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0427-6648)
- Simone Beretta
- G Basili
- Yasser Abdurabo Obadiel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3566-7281)
- F Dalla Palma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1872-232X)
- Giorgio Giraudo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0273-0096)
- Fausto Palazzo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4999-9348)
- Brendan C. Stack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2896-1615)
- Carmela De Crea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7303-9657)
- Gennaro Lupone
- H Molabe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3411-536X)
- Giacomo Di Filippo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8466-6787)
- Andrea Borasi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9663-8583)
- Tobias Zingg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0905-2299)
- Ioannis Massalis
- Courtney Gibson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9169-8712)
- Pietro Giorgio Calò (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9637-1145)
- Radu Mihai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6153-1970)
- Mauricio Sierra Salazar
- М.Yu. Bolgov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9011-9982)
- Anton F. Engelsman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4943-8882)
- Ali Naddaf
- Giulia Gobbo
- Trong Anh Nguyen
- Güldeniz KARADENİZ ÇAKMAK
- Marco Raffaelli
- Aykut Çelik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0478-7723)
- Ozan Çalişkan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6879-8034)
- Sharjeel Paul
- Elissavet Anestiadou
- Nikolaos Roukounakis
- Gian Luca Ansaldo
- Eleonora Morelli
- Stephan Kersting
- Eveline Slotema
- G Materazzi
- Göran Wallin
- Adela Valdazo Gómez
- Benedetto Calì
- Rogeh Habashi
- Luigi Ragucci
- Pierpaolo Gallucci
- Andrea Goldmann
- Dorin Serbusca
- Giovanna Pavone
- Nurcihan Aygün
- Inga- Lena Nilsson
- Marc Goebel
- Klaas Van Den Heede
- Lucia Amorim
- Mehmet Ilker Thuran
- Alessandro Monaco
- Giovanni Docimo
- Antonio Ambrosi
- Barbara Mullineris
- The Aligning Perspectives Collaborative Group
- Laurent Brunaud
- Paolo Usai
- Zenon Narbuts
- Andrea Valer Gatti
- Jordi Girones
- Francesco Pennestrì
- Nikolaos Voloudakis
- Sofia Rozani
- Andrea De Palma
- Juan Duenas
- Erick Gonzales Laguado
- Claudia Bonifazi
- Anislav Gabarski
- Volker Fendrich
- Michal Kusinski
- Leonardo Rossi
- Thea Pierdomenico
- Maryan Ostafiychuk
- Jesús María de Villar
- Marcela Linhartová
- Theodosios Papavradimis
- Donatella Schiavone
- Martha Trujillo
- Pier Francesco Alesina
- Filipe Sá Santos
- Luca Sessa
- Eva Brugger
- Damiano Chiari
- Mattia Cammarata
- Gael Guian
- Andreas Zielke
- Jin Wook Yi
- David Thorsteinsson
- Akif Enes Arikan
- Wah Yang
- Teresa Cereser
- Muhammer Ergenç
- Mehmet Uludag
- Ahmed Mohammed Obeidat
- Giovanni Lazzari
- Mehmet Haciyanli
- Nicola Tartaglia
- Eleftherios Spartalis
- Francisco De Santos Iglesias
- Frederic Triponez
- Sami Abd Elwahab
- Francesco Giudici
- Fabio Medas
- Angela Juliane Berger
- Haythem Najah
- Muharrem Oner
- Marco Moretti
- Andrea Costantino
- Marco Palucci
- Charles De Ponthaud
- Marie-Laure Matthey Gié
- Milan Jovanovic
Institutions
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT)
- University of Pisa (IT)
- University of Verona (IT)
- University of Cagliari (IT)
- Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic (IT)
- University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Cagliari (IT)
- Ospedale Sant'Anna (IT)
- University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
- Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Updates in Surgery
- Published
- 2025-12-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13304-025-02470-0
- Primary Topic
- Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00