Scientific Programme
Für die 44. Arbeitstagung erstellt die wissenschaftliche Leitung ein Programm basierend auf den folgenden Themenschwerpunkten für Sie*:
Active Surveillance beim papillären Schilddrüsenkarzinom:
Erfahrungen und Probleme
Einseitige Resektion bei medullärem Schilddrüsenkarzinom:
Pro und Contra
Radiofrequenzablation bei Schilddrüsenerkrankungen:
Grenzen und Chancen
Robotergestützte endokrine Chirurgie:
State of the Art
Endokrine Pathologie:
Kontroversen und Perspektiven
*Dezember 2025 / Änderungen möglich
08:00 – 08:30 | Opening Ceremony
Greetings from the DGAV and SIUEC presidents
K. Holzer (Marburg, DE) / G. Materazzi (Pisa, IT)
Greetings from the Munich Organisation Team
C. Chiapponi (Munich, DE), R. Ladurner (Munich, DE), A. Trupka (Starnberg, DE), A. Agha (Munich, DE), A. Gut (Munich, DE),
D. Krenz (Munich, DE), P. Zimmermann (Munich, DE)
08:30 – 10:30 | Session 1: Controversies in Thyroid Surgery
V. Fendrich (Hamburg, DE) / G. Scerrino (Palermo, IT)
08:30 – 09:10 | Active surveillance for thyroid cancer: a paradigm shift or established clinical practice?
C. Spitzweg (Munich, DE) / L. Rossi (Pisa, IT)
09:10 – 09:30 | Tailoring the extent of thyroidectomy in MTC: the role of intraoperative assessment of desmoplasia
K. Lorenz (Halle, DE)
09:30 – 09:50 | Tailoring the extent of thyroidectomy in ptc : the role of intraoperative assessment of the compartment
C. De Crea (Rome, IT)
09:50 – 10:10 | Radiofrequency ablation : current applications
H. Dobnig (Graz, AT)
10:10 – 10:30 | Surgical risk after thyroid nodule ablation: how much more challenging is the thyroidectomy?
G. Dionigi (Milan, IT)
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break in the Industry Exhibition
11:00 – 12:30 | Session 2: Robotic Endocrine Surgery
M. Walz (Essen, DE) / G. Docimo (Napoli, IT)
11:00 – 11:20 | Remote access thyroidectomy via BABA -RT: a safe alternative for selected patients
M. Raffaelli (Rome, IT)
11:20 – 11:40 | Beyond the blade: the robotic era of transaxillary thyroid procedures.
B. Mullineris (Modena, IT)
11:40 – 12:00 | Robotic Adrenalectomy for large adrenal Tumors: different approaches and platforms
F. Pennestri (Rome, IT)
12:00 – 12:20 | Robotic Surgery for pancreatic Tumors
A. Agha (Munich, DE)
12:30 – 13:00 | Session 3: Theodor-Kocher-Lecture
Laudatio: M. Walz (Essen, DE) / P. Riss (Wien, AT)
Lecture: TBA
13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch Break with Poster Session and Lunch Symposia I
15:00 – 16:00 | Session 4: Neuroendocrine Tumors
D. Bartsch (Marburg, DE) / M. Raffaelli (Rome, IT)
15:00 – 15:20 | The German NET Register 3.0
N. Begum (Minden, DE)
15:20 – 15:40 | Tailored Management of Localized Non-Functioning pNETs
L. Sgaramella (Bari, IT)
15:40 – 16:00 | Extraadrenal paragangliomas
P. Alesina (Essen, DE)
16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break in the Industry Exhibition
16:30 – 18:00 | CAEK Members Meeting
08:30 – 09:00 | Breakfast in the Exhibition
09:00 – 11:00 | Session 5: Endocrine Pathology
A. Schultheis (Freiburg, DE) / P. Calò (Cagliari, IT)
09:00 – 09:20 | The current WHO thyroid cancer classification
U. Siebolts (Cologne, DE)
09:20 – 09:40 | The angiogenic microenviroments of thyroid cancer: an insight into the research of new prognostic markers
M. Testini (Bari, IT)
09:40 – 10:00 | Non invasive Follicular thyroid neoplasm with Papillary nuclear features (NIFTP) : clinicopathological characteristics and more conservative strategies
C. Dobrinjia (Trieste, IT)
10:00 – 10:20 | Multi-omics based risk stratification of malignancy in indeterminate thyroid nodules: implications for surgical decision-making
F. Medas (Cagliari, IT)
10:20 – 10:40 | Molecular characterization of follicular thyroid nodules: real life application in a community hospital
P. Princi (Rome, IT)
10:40 – 11:00 | What´s new in neuroendocrine pathology?
A. Kasajima (Munich, DE)
11:00 – 11:30 | Session 6: Poster Award Ceremony
11:30 – 12:30 | Lunch Break with Lunch Symposia II
12:30 – 15:30 | Session 7: New developments and clinical studies in endocrine surgery
K. Holzer (Marburg, DE) / P. De Rio (Parma, IT)
12:30 – 12:45 | CITY Study : preliminare results
E. Maurer (Marburg)
12:45 – 13:00 | Presspar
N. Schlegel (Würzburg, DE)
13:00 – 13:15 | Evaluation of quality of intraoperative haemodynamic control in pheochromocytoma : a prospective randomized Italian study
M. Iacobone (Padova, IT)
13:15 – 13:30 | Preoperative Administration of lugol’s solution in patients with graves disease: is it really useful? Protocol of a prospective randomized multicenter study
G. Canu (Cagliari, IT)
13:30 – 13:45 | Surgical treatment of cT1b-cT2 cN0 papillary thyroid carcinoma: an ITCO Real-World study
A. D’amore (Rome, IT)
13:45 – 14:00 | Autofluorescence as routine application: ESES recommendation
A. Trupka (Starnberg, DE)
14:00 – 14:15 | Biochemical Snapshot
S. Schopf (Salzburg, AT)
14:15 – 14:30 | RecurSense
M. Kießler (Munich, DE) / J. Fuchtmann (Munich, DE)
14:30 – 15:30 | Oral Presentations by abstract athors
15:30 – 15:45 | Farewell and Invitation to CAEK 2027
Invitation to CAEK 2027
A. Goldmann (Winterthur, CH)
Farewell from Munich Organisation Team
C. Chiapponi (Munich, DE), R. Ladurner (Munich, DE), A. Trupka (Starnberg, DE), A. Agha (Munich, DE), A. Gut (Munich, DE),
D. Krenz (Munich, DE), P. Zimmermann (Munich, DE)
*as of June 2026 – subject possible to change