Endocrine Abstracts

There are several choices for treating esophageal cancer. But only operation is the standard therapy of papillary thyroid carcinoma with esophageal invasion. Esophageal stent and gastric fistula are chose when the patient can’t swallow because of esophageal stenosis by tumor invasion. But those put a lot of strain on the patient, and lower their quality of life. To reduce the burden on patient, it is useful to adopt targeting percutaneous ethanol injection (targeting PEI)...

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...