Endocrine Abstracts

The management of papillary thyroid microcarcinomas (PTMC) has been controversial and only observation without surgery has been advocated for the low-risk PTMC. Radio-frequency ablation(RFA)has been applied to thyroid nodule, which shows safe and useful results for benign thyroid nodules. In our institution, not only benign nodules, but thyroid malignancies have been attempted to be therapeutic objectives by RFA. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of RFA for pri...