Martínez Santos, Cristina

Medical Specialty

Cervical Endocrine Surgery

License number

29/32/03142

Languages

English and Spanish

Training

1995: Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Sevilla.
2001: Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery at Getafe University Hospital, Madrid.
2002: Doctorate from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
2013: European Board of Neck-Endocrine Surgery.
2016: Master of Professional Competences of General and Digestive Surgeons.

Work chronology

2001: Specialist Physician in the General Surgery Area at Verín Hospital, Orense
2002 until now: Specialist Physician in the General Surgery Area at Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella. Head of the Endocrine Surgery Unit.
2021: Specialist Physician in the General Surgery Area at the Regional Hospital in Málaga (voluntary leave) in leave of absence.

 

Clinical Rotation
2001: Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.
2001: Minimally invasive Surgery Center. Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, USA.
2009: Endocrine Surgery Department with the Profesor Miccoli Pisa University, Italy.

 

Cooperation projects
2006: Peruvian Amazonic Rainforest in Sepahua.
2007: Saharawi refugee camps.

Scientific Associations

National Coordinator of the Endocrine Surgery Area of the AEC (Spanish Surgeons Association). Member of the AEC since 1998.

 

Member of the ESES (European Society of Endocrine Surgeons) since 2010. Currently Examiner or the European Board of Endocrine Surgery.

 

Eurocrine Society (European Register of Endocrine Surgery) from 2017 and currently member of the Board and Scientific Committee.

Scientific publications

Aportación de la autofluorescencia en el hiperparatiroidismo.
C. Martinez Santos, Jesús Maria Villar del Moral.
J Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez et al (eds). Autofluorescencia en cirugía endocrina cervical; 2023. P. 69-78. ISBN: 978-84-09-47958-0.

 

Nódulo tiroideo y bocio multinodular.
C Martinez Santos, E Bollo Arocena.
P Parrilla Paricio et al (eds). Cirugia AEC (tercera edición). Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana; 2022. p. 925-32. ISBN 978-84-9110-104-8.

 

Jaw Tumor Syndrome
Iacobone, C Martínez-Santos, F Torresan.
Shifrin et al (eds.), Endocrine Surgery Comprehensive Board Exam Guide. ed. Springer 2021. p. 847-867.
ISBN 978-3-030-84736-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3030-84737-1_35

 

Usefulness of ultrasound-guided core biopsy in thyroid nodules with inconclusive fine-needle aspiration biopsy findings.
Cortázar-García, MD Martínez-Escalante, L Robles-Cabeza, C Martínez Santos
Radiología /Eng Ed). 2020 Juk 24:S0033-8338(20)30074-6. Doi: 10.1016/j.rx2020.06.001. Online ahead of print. PMDI: 32718472.

 

Manejo de la hormona paratiroidea y de la calcemia perioperatoria en el hiperparatiroidismo primario. C. Martínez Santos. 3ª Edición Guía Cirugía Endocrina Asociación Española de Cirujanos 2020: 233-238. ISBN 978-84-18116-81-0.

 

¿Sigue siendo útil la determinación de PTH intraoperatoria hoy en día? C. Martínez Santos, G. Martín Callejón, F. Lucena Navarro, N. Gándara Adán. Cir Andaluza 2020: 31 (3):282-6.

 

Results of adrenal surgery. Data of a spanish nacional survey. Villar JM, Moreno P, Ortega J, Bollo E, Ramírez CP, Muñoz N, Martínez C, Domínguez-Adame E et al. Langenbecks Arch Surg 2010 Sep:395(7):837-43.

 

Utilidad de la PTH intraoperatoria en el HPTP: expectativas iniciales y situación actual. C. Martínez-Santos, F Martín, JM Verdugo, A Obispo, J Díaz, P Andrés, J Bercedo, N Gándara. Cir Andaluza 2010: 21; 334-8.

 

¿Son necesarios los drenajes en Cirugía tiroidea? Sánchez Blanco, J.M., Gómez Bujedo, L, Ruiz Luque, V., Martínez Santos, C., Galnares Barro, R., Delgado Jiménez, C. Cir Esp 1998; 63: 20-24.

Teaching

2010-2021: Tutor of the medical residents of the General and Digestive System Surgery Service at the Costa del Sol Hospital at Marbella.

 

Speaker at the X International Surgical Conference 1995. “Parathyroidectomy in a General Hospital”.

 

Speaker at the XXI National Congress of Surgery. Madrid, 4-8 November 1996. Post-thyroidectomy cervical drainage: is it really necessary?

 

Speaker at the XVI National Surgery Meeting 2007. “Influence of geographical origin on the perception of quality in thyroid surgery: The situation in an area with high immigration variability”.

 

Speaker at the XVII National Surgery Meeting 2009. “Evaluation and improvement actions in the protocol for early detection of postoperative hypocalcaemia in thyroid and parathyroid surgery”. “Parathyrotoxicosis as a debut of parathyroid cyst: diagnosis and treatment”.

 

Speaker at the XVII National Congress of Surgery 2010. “Incidental thyroid nodules and prioritisation of the surgical waiting list”.

 

Speaker at the XVIII National Congress of Surgery 2010. “Final results after establishing measures to improve the protocol for the detection and treatment of postoperative hypocalcaemia”.

 

Moderator in the oral session communications Endocrine surgery. National Congress of Surgery 2010, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019

 

Speaker at the surgical technique round table: “Intraoperative PTH”. III RICE (Iberian Meeting of Endocrine Surgery) 2014

 

Speaker at the V RICE (Iberian Meeting of Endocrine Surgery) 2015. “Post-surgical morbidity in papillary thyroid cancer. Are there solutions?

 

Moderator of the Emergencies in parathyroid surgery round table. V RICE (Iberian Meeting of Endocrine Surgery) 2016.

 

Speaker on Medullary thyroid carcinoma. VI RICE (Iberian Meeting of Endocrine Surgery). 2017

 

Speaker at the XVIII National Surgery Meeting 2011. “Surgery for papillary thyroid cancer in the second trimester of pregnancy: precautions”. “Use of PTHio determination on the intraoperative support techniques table”.

 

Speaker “New diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in endocrine surgery. For and against”. XXI National Surgery Meeting 2017.

 

Speaker at the XXII National Congress of Surgery 2018. “Atypical symptomatology and its evolution after surgery”.

 

Speaker at the III Conference on Endocrine Surgery. “Controversies and new techniques”. “Primary hyperparathyroidism: surgery when?” Infanta Elena Hospital Huelva 2018.

 

Instructor I Online course on benign thyroid pathology. 4 March to 7 July 2019 through the AEC online campus.

 

Speaker at the Trainee parallel session. Case discussion. British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS) Congress 2019

 

Speaker in the ACS virtual classroom webinar. Update on thyroid and adrenal pathology. Topic: clinical cases in endocrine pathology. 18th June 2020.

 

AEC virtual classroom webinar moderator. “Accreditation of endocrine surgery units: where do we start? “24 June 2021.

 

AEC virtual classroom webinar moderator. “Bridge between young surgeons and experts in adrenal surgery. 1st July 2021.