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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Baek JH et al Leading expert in RFA use for thyroid nodules and cancer has an accepted publication in Ultrasonography I have seen the article and here are my thoughts Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. Thyroid cancers usually have good prognosis. 2...
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Dr.Guttler’s comments: 29 patients with 49 recurrent episodes were followed from 60-114 months. Volume reduction was 99.5% 42/47 (91.3%) had complete ablation. No delayed complication found. RFA seems to be an effective minimally...
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For attempted curative RFA therapy 2.The number of abnormal cancer lymph nodes has to be limited to 3-4. 3.There must not be metastatic disease outside the neck. 4. The size of the lymph nodes to be RFA treated must be less than 1.5-2 cm. 1.. For...
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