Ultrasound-guided percutaneous ethanol injection protocol to treat solid and mixed thyroid nodules: a new approach with 52 patients follow-up.

Ultrasound-guided percutaneous ethanol injection protocol to treat solid and mixed thyroid nodules: a new approach with 52 patients follow-up.

Context: Ultrasound (US)-guided percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) has been proposed for treatment of benign thyroid nodules (TNs). However, there is no consensus for the optimal amount of ethanol injection, number of applications and time to re-evaluation in order to achieve maximum volume reduct...

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Main Authors: João Soares Felício, Flávia Marques Santos, Karem Miléo Felício, Michelle Masuyo Minami Sato, Fabiola de Arruda Bastos, Ana Carolina Contente Braga de Souza, Camila Cavalcante Koury, João Felício Abrahão Neto, Franciane Trindade Cunha de Melo, Carolina Tavares Carvalho, Thais Pontes Arbage, Hana Andrade de Rider Brito, Fabrício de Souza Resende, Marcelo Oliveira Mourão Júnior, Antonio Bentes de Figueiredo Júnior, Antonio Maria Silva Conceição
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Endocrinology
Subjects:
thyroid nodules
Percutaneous ethanol injection
alcoholization
US-guided
nodule volume reduction
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fendo.2016.00052/full

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