Dr Vivek Shetty is trained in Head and Neck Oncology and Reconstructive Surgery at Narayana Health City, Bangalore. He received additional experience in Facial Reanimation at the San Paolo Ospedale in Milan and Advanced Head and Neck Reconstruction at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville. As a Consultant Head and Neck Oncosurgeon in Bangalore, he has managed over 1000 patients with oral cancers, thyroid cancers, salivary gland tumours, laryngopharyngeal cancers, and other head and neck neoplasia. He is a trained microvascular surgeon with extensive experience in the reconstruction of head and neck defects.
He is also passionate about prevention, and has worked with various NGOs to run campaigns about the risks of tobacco and other carcinogens amongst school and college-going youngsters.
- Oral cancer management
- Thyroid surgeries
- Salivary gland neoplasm management
- Laryngo-pharyngeal cancer management
- Advanced neck surgeries
- Reconstruction of head and neck defects
- Microvascular surgery
- MS (General Surgery) at Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore
- Fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology and Reconstructive Surgery from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore
- Evidence-based Multidisciplinary management of head and neck cancers
- Restoring form and function through quality reconstruction of head and neck defects
- Shetty V et al (2017), Reconstruction of Cheek Defects. In: M. Kuriakose, ed., Contemporary Oral Oncology Volume 3, 1st ed. Springer, pp.171-195
- Prabhu M, Samson S, Reddy A, Venkataramanarao SH, Chandrasekhar NH, Pillai V, Shetty V, Kuriokose MA, Vidhya B, Kannan S. Role of Preablative Stimulated Thyroglobulin in Prediction of Nodal and Distant Metastasis on Iodine Whole-Body Scan. Indian J Nucl Med. 2018 Apr-Jun;33(2):93-98
- Vidya B, Chauhan S, Chandrasekhar NH, Sunil HV, Pillai V, Shetty V, et al. Radio-guided minimally invasive parathyroidectomy: A descriptive report of the experience from a tertiary centre in Bangalore. Indian J Nucl Med 2017;32:184-7
- Subramaniam N, Clark JR, Goldstein D, de Almeida J, Ali Abdalaty AH, Balasubramanian D, Thankappan K, Iyer S, Batstone M, Gopal Iyer N, Smee RI, Chandrasekhar NH, Pillai V, Shetty V, Rangappa V, Veness M, Hubert Low TH. Stage pN3a in oral cancer: A redundant entity? Oral Oncol. 2020 Nov;110:104815
- Nandini H, Shetty V, Lakshmikantha A, Sunil HV, Kannan S. SETTLE tumor of thyroid: Oldest case in literature. Indian J Pathol Microbiol. 2019 Jan-Mar;62(1):175-177
- Sunny SP, Agarwal S, James BL, Heidari E, Muralidharan A, Yadav V, Pillai V, Shetty V, Chen Z, Hedne N, Wilder-Smith P, Suresh A, Kuriakose MA. Intra-operative point-of-procedure delineation of oral cancer margins using optical coherence tomography. Oral Oncol. 2019 May;92:12-19
- Pillai V, Yadav V, Kekatpure V, Trivedi N, Chandrashekar NH, Shetty V, Rangappa V, Subramaniam N, Bhat V, Raghavan N, Kolur T, George N, Thomas T, Kuriakose MA.
Prognostic determinants of locally advanced buccal mucosa cancer: Do we need to relook at the current staging criteria? Oral Oncol. 2019 Aug;95:43-51 - Tu IW, Shannon NB, Thankappan K, Balasubramanian D, Pillai V, Shetty V, Rangappa V, Chandrasekhar NH, Kekatpure V, Kuriakose MA, Krishnamurthy A, Mitra A, Pattatheyil A, Jain P, Iyer S, Subramaniam N and Iyer NG (2022) Risk Stratification in Oral Cancer: A Novel Approach. Front. Oncol. 12:836803. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.836803
- Vishwanath D, Shanmugam A, Sundaresh M, Hariharan A, Saraf S, Bahadur U, Veeramachaneni V, Chandrasekhar N, Pillai V V, Bushan V, Shetty V, Subramaniam N, Kuriakose MA, Shivaprasad KS, Khadilkar K, Suresh A, Sum S, Lakhsmikantha A, Rekha PR, Zaidi SN, Gupta V, Kannan S. Development of a Low-cost NGS Test for the Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules. Indian J Surg Oncol. 2022 Mar;13(1):17-22. doi: 10.1007/s13193-019-01000-w. Epub 2019 Nov 20. PMID: 35462651; PMCID: PMC8986928.
- Subramaniam N, Clark JR, Goldstein D, de Almeida J, Ali Abdalaty AH, Balasubramanian D, Thankappan K, Iyer S, Batstone M, Gopal Iyer N, Smee RI, Chandrasekhar NH, Pillai V, Shetty V, Rangappa V, Veness M, Hubert Low TH. Stage pN3a in oral cancer: A redundant entity? Oral Oncol. 2020 Nov;110:104815. doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2020.104815. Epub 2020 May 25. PMID: 32467072
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