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Dear Friends,

It is our great pleasure and honor to invite you to participate the ‘’Hands-On CadaverLab Workshop for Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach’’ in Thessaloniki, on Saturday October 4, 2025.

This event will be organized in collaboration with the Education Committee of European Society of Endocrine Surgeons (ESES).

The meeting follows the very successful previous ones, which took place three times in Izmir (Türkiye) and once in Messina (Italy), Verona (Italy) and İstanbul (Türkiye).

The program focuses on TOETVA technical advances, tips & tricks, live cadaveric surgery, patient selection, oncologic indications, how to manage complications, modern surgical technology integrated and pre- & post-operative patient management.

We aim to capture the interest of general, endocrine and head&neck surgeons, in order to foster progress in TOETVA. All surgeons feeling young are welcome!!!

The official language will be English. And keep in mind that we will have social sharings as well.

Kindly stimulate your surgical colleagues not only to attend, but also to actively participate in the meeting.

Very sincerely yours,

ozer makay

Özer MAKAY, MD, FEBS
div. Endocrine Surgery

Professor of Surgery
Center for Endocrine Surgery
Özel Sağlık Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
Ioannis Koutelidakis

Dr. Ioannis Koutelidakis, MD, FACS, FEBS
div. Endocrine Surgery

Professor of Surgery
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece