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 Posts: PET/CT can it Prevent futile surgery on indeterminate thyroid nodules? This paper suggests the answer is yes. E. deKoster et al Eur J. Nucl Med Mol Imaging April 2022 49: 1970-84. Dr.Guttler’s...
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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 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...
More info Thyroid RFA for Benign Nodules: Relief of Symptoms is the goal not total Ablation with increased risk of complications. The recent use of thyroid RFA for benign nodules has as it’s goal to relief symptoms and improve the cosmetic...
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Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. Despite the increasing evidence of safety and efficacy of EA and RFA for benign thyroid nodules, there is still a large variation in the application of the different available techniques among different countries...
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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: Not much can go wrong but here is a summary. Unlike the hospital, my patients are watched post RFA for 30-45 minutes while they are checked for any symptoms. They can return to work but no heavy lifting or exercise...
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The American Thyroid Association has accepted our abstract on the results of 3 endocrine practice’s office based (OB) thyroid nodule RFA ablation. It will be presented at their 2021 national meeting. Dr. Kathleen Hands in Texas Brian...
More info Fewer complications. Shorter recovery time Quick return to normal work and leisure activities. Preserves your thyroid function. No life long thyroid medication. No general anesthesia Local only. No hospital admission. No surgical scar. No...
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Just like general surgery for thyroid nodules and cancer, hospital based surgeons are now pushing general RFA for thyroid nodules. The general stands for general anesthesia with or without nerve monitoring. The alternative is outpatient thyroid...
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