DR VIKRAM SHARANAPPA

Areas of Special Interest
– Scarless thyroid surgery
– Thyroid nodules and cancer
– Hyperparathyroidism (minimally invasive parathyroidectomy)
– Adrenal neoplasms (laparoscopic adrenalectomy)
– Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
– Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors
– Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
– VATS thymectomy
– Oncoplastic breast conservation surgery
– Sentinel lymph node biopsy
– Reduction and Augmentation mammoplasty
– Chemoport insertion
– Metabolic surgery (Sleeve Gastrectomy, RYGB, MGB)

Key Achievements
– Best Paper Award: “Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Children and Adolescents: Experience Over Three Decades from a North Indian Center” at 79th Annual Conference of the Association of Surgeons of India, 2019
– Dr SS Agarwal Best resident award MCh: Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, 2020
– Japanese surgical society travel grant: 123rd international conference of Japanese surgical society, Tokyo, Japan, 2023
– ICMR and CSIR travel grant

Membership
– Association of Surgeons of India
– Indian Association of Endocrine Surgeons

Publications
– Outcome of synthetic mesh repair in open incisional ventral hernia repair in patients with comorbidities
– Study of follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma and its subtypes
– Circumferential Laryngotracheal Resection in Thyroid Cancer: Experience and Outcome in a Single Center
– Pediatric Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Experience in a Tertiary Care Referral Center in a Developing Country Over Three Decades
– Clinical Presentation of Papillary Carcinoma Thyroid as a Lateral Neck Cyst: Case Report
– Solid pseudopapillary tumour of pancreas in pregnancy: case report
– Delayed Mesh Infection: A Rare Complication of Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair (TEP—Totally Extra-Peritoneal Repair)
– Neoadjuvant Multikinase Inhibitor Therapy in Locally Advanced Unresectable Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: a Case Report
– Comment on Autofluorescence imaging of parathyroid glands: An assessment of potential indications
– Letter to editor in response to the article “Parathyroidectomy for patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism in a changing landscape for the management of end-stage renal disease” by Willemijn van der Plas et al
– Letter to Editor in response to article ‘Intraoperative nerve monitoring in thyroid surgery: analysis of United Kingdom registry of endocrine and thyroid surgery database’
– Letter to Editor: How Effective is the Use of Molecular Testing in Preoperative Decision Making for Management of Indeterminant Thyroid Nodules?