DR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: More extensive total thyroidectomy than is needed in 50% of Cases with class V cytology. Dr.Guttler’s comments: 25%-50% of Bethesda V thyroid nodules may be benign, noninvasive follicular...
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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 infoHumane treatment during the diagnosis and treatment for nodules and cancer is your right. Many physicians are only interested in outcomes and do not treat the whole patient. They make it possible for you to have heightened stress, anxiety, fear...
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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 infoAt least 2-4 times a year patients present with extremely large Goiter nodules. They have seen many endocrinologists and surgeons before me.They claim for different reasons not to want surgery even though all the prior physicians told them to...
More infoThyroid No Surgery For Thyroid, Parathyroid or Neck Cysts: Radiofrequency RFA and Ethanol PEI are Treatments not Surgery. Yelp for business New review for Guttler Richard B MD 1328 16th St Santa Monica, CA 90404 5/17/2021 I went to Dr. Guttler...
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Playing Defense From the Start: Know The Thyroid Neighborhood. Richard Guttler MD Interventional Thyroidologist Dr.Guttler’s Lecture on May 8th in Irvine California to future thyroid physicians during a workshop with cadavers and models...
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Since 2013 Dr.Guttler has Been the First US Thyroidologist to Have Experience Learning and Teaching Thyroid RF to Thyroid Physicians. In 2018 he finally began treating patients after late FDA approval. Image is of Dr.Guttler treating a patient of...
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RGS Healthcare’s Rudy Garay held a RFA introduction workshop for 8 thyroid physicians in Irvine California in May 8th. 8 thyroid physicians were present for lectures by Kathleen Hands and Richard Guttler followed by two workshops. One was a...
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No Country for Aggressive Operators: Do No Harm When Treating Patients with Benign Thyroid nodule with Radiofrequency Ablation RFA. It takes years of experience to go for total ablation of large thyroid nodules. The risk of injury increases with...
More infoPapillary Thyroid Cancer: Positive Thyroid Antibodies associated with less lymph node and extra-thyroidal extension and better prognosis. DR. Guttler’s Comments: Study of 4000 patients that had thyroid surgery. 3000 were diagnosed...
More infoDR.Guttler’s comments: This is an excellent video by a surgeon on the risks of RFA for thyroid nodules. The thyroid sits surrounded by important structures including the trachea, recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) and vagus nerve, and common...
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