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 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 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 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...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Thyroid RFA for Benign Nodules: Relief of Symptoms is the goal not total Ablation with increased risk of complications.
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 Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Radiofrequency Ablation of Papillary Thyroid Micro-carcinoma. Dr.Guttler’s Comments: 1.Incidental finding pre-op bariatric surgery found a < 1 cm suspicious nodule. A before the RFA B shows...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Quality of Life After Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. Dr.Valcavi’s group studied Forty patients (35 women and 5 men; age, 54.9 ± 14.3 years) with cold...
More infoDR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Posts: Patients’ Treatment Choice for Low Risk Thyroid Cancer. Add RFA to the Discussion.
DR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Posts: Patients’ Treatment Choice for Low Risk Thyroid Cancer. DR.Guttler’s comments: Low risk thyroid cancer is a quality of Life issue. What option has the best options related to improving...
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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...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #22 Treatment of Thyroid Cancer with Radiofrequency Ablation part 3
Dr.Guttler’s comments: Complications, Protocol, Follow up and Conclusions 1. Complications are not common with treatment of small thyroid cancers but do occur. 2.RFA has an excellent safety profile for small thyroid cancers and benign...
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