Choose Lincoln Surgical for Your Thyroid Cancer Cases
Douglas Aach, MD, FACS, shares the advantages of Lincoln Surgical.
From ultrasound scans and biopsies to lobectomies and thyroidectomies, Lincoln Surgical can help treat your thyroid cancer patients, keeping you in the loop throughout the process.
In fact, Dr. Aach sees about 10 thyroid patients in the office per week. According to Dr. Aach, here are the main reasons referring physicians choose Lincoln Surgical for their thyroid cases.
Five Reasons Physicians Choose Lincoln Surgical
- Lincoln Surgical does biopsies under ultrasound guidance so if there’s ever a question, they can come to Lincoln Surgical to look at the images, talk to the patient, and decide whether they need a biopsy.
- Lincoln Surgical doesn’t refer ultrasound-guided biopsies out.
- There is a pathologist in the ultrasound room when Lincoln Surgical performs fine needle biopsies to ensure there is enough of a sample for a diagnosis.
- The decision of who needs surgery and who doesn’t is dependent on the pathologist’s findings, and the cases that trigger an operation are documented cancer, suspicious cancer, or follicular neoplasm.
- If the patient has a palpable mass, the referring physician can order an ultrasound of the neck to look at the thyroid before the patient shows up, or Lincoln Surgical can do it when they see the patient.
If it is cancer, Lincoln Surgical will talk to the oncologist and radiation therapist, because this needs to be followed long term.