Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #19 The Revolution Continues: Small Thyroid Cancers Don’t Need Surgery! Dr.Guttler’s comments: It was only recently that surgery was king for all thyroid cancers. Surgery was displaced by...
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DR. Guttler’s Comments: Dan was a corporate type in addition to being a great physician. He was my guiding light who helped push for change in how we treat thyroid nodules and cancer.He even promoted my plan to get endocrinologists to the...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Comments: This paper describes how a specific genetic is the hallmark of a rare thyroid nodular disease that mimics papillary thyroid cancer and in the past resulted in surgery to make the diagnosis. Many patients suffered the...
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Thyroid Ablation with Ethanol and Radiofrequency Ablation. Don’t be fooled by ads and websites by hospitals, universities, radiologists, surgeons who are new to Treating thyroid patients with thyroid radiofrequency or ethanol ablation treatment...
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Dr.Guttler’s comments: To prevent this serious complication, make sure you absolutely need the surgery. A total of 1000 RLNs from 574 patients were assessed in this review. Nearly one-quarter (23%) of the RLNs deviated from their...
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Thyroid (1) 2022 Tuttle RM et al Dr.Guttler’s comments: Study looked at 943 lobectomy cases matched with 943 patients with a total thyroidectomy for outcomes. At ten years there was no difference what surgery they had. Previous article by...
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Thyroid 32(1) 2022 Tufano RP et al “The year of technical advances in treating nodules and cancer” Dr.Guttler’s comments on this special article on thyroid advances. The number of surgeries for benign nodules has shown a...
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Benign thyroid nodules class 11 are good candidates for Ablation. However, Class III will need more studies to be sure you don’t have a nodule with potential for thyroid cancer. A suspicious needle biopsy alone can lead to unnecessary...
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From the moment the lump in your neck is noted by you, family member or your primary physician, the first thought is do I have thyroid cancer? Will I see my kids grow up? The amount of anxiety, worry and fear increases when you are told you need...
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When do we need to use continuous infusion D5W for adequate hydrodissection protective effects? Ma Y. et al Eur. Thyroid Journal October 2021 DR. Guttler’s Comments on the article: Single bolus of D5W has a short half life in the body...
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Skin involvement with recurrent thyroid cancer.
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