Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: Long-Term Efficacy of a Single Session of RFA for Benign Thyroid Nodules. DR.Guttler’s comments: 1.Two hundred and fifteen patients were included. 2. An early significant reduction of nodule volume...
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Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: PET/CT to Prevent unnecessary Surgery in Follicular Neoplasm with Low PET/CT SUV. Dr.Guttler’s Comments: 1.28/86 had PET/CT. 2. 6/28 had high SUV> 5 were sent to surgey. 3.22/28 had low SUV...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Why are so many patients with small thyroid cancers looking for alternatives to surgery? DR.Guttler’s comments: 1. Two major breakthroughs in 2018 have FDA approval of radiofrequency ablation...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Does BRAF V600E mutation effect the outcomes of 1-1.5 cm papillary cancers? S.Silver et al Nov. 2021 J.of Otolaryngology. Dr.Guttler’s Comments: BRAF mutations are found in 40% of small cancer...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: List of Thyroid conditions can be treated without surgery with Ethanol or Radiofrequency Ablation. 1. Class II cytology benign thyroid nodules. 2. Proven benign class III and IV cytology nodules...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post; RFA for Parathyroid Adenoma PTA. Efficacy and Safety of Ultrasound-Guided Radiofrequency Ablation for Parathyroid Adenoma. Dr.Guttler’s comments: The imaging of the PHPT nodules should include ...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Use of cold 5% Dextrose Water can treat the voice changes occurring during the RFA treatment. Call me for an evaluation for thyroid RFA. 3102928860 or email to thyroid.manager@thyroid.com. Ask for...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post on Radiofrequency ablation for small thyroid cancers Dr.Guttler’s comments: Thyroid RFA can ablate the cancer without surgery or life long follow up as in Active surveillance. Not all patients...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Blog post: Thyroid RFA By JH Baek Classic Paper. Dr.Guttler’s Comments: 1.This is a classic article on Thyroid RFA. 2. Read it and then call me for an evaluation. 3103938860 or thyroid.manager@thyroid.com Ask for...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Radiofrequency Ablation for Thyroid Papillary Microcarcinoma Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. Dr Allen Ho came to my center to observe a patient of mine having thyroid RFA for a thyroid nodule. Now he...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Can PET/CT prevent surgery in Class III atypical thyroid nodules? A.Piccardo et al Endocrine 2020 69-533-561 Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. 111 patients were classified as Class III cytology. 67Class...
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Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: When is Molecular Testing in Class III or IV nodules needed? Almost always! DR.Guttler’s Comments: The study results were that Cytology and Ultrasound were not able alone or together able to...
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