Endocrine Abstracts

In recent years, US-guided thermal ablation techniques have been proposed as a therapeutic alternative to traditional surgery or to metabolic radiotherapy for thyroid nodes. RFA is one of the most used technique and experience in both ultrasound and ultrasound interventional is important for results and minimizing complications. We present our experience after 1 year of activity on the first 33 patients with thyroid nodules treated with RFA. The nodules were evaluated by ultra...

Recently ultrasound-guide radiofrequency thermal ablation has been proposed as an effective and safe procedure for treating patients who have low risk papillary thyroid microcarcinomas or are unfit for surgery. We present the case of a 56 years old patient with a small (10 mm) thyroid nodule diagnosed as TIR 4, suspect citology for papillary carcinoma after fine needle aspiration. The nodule was also studied with CEUS (Sonovue US contrast medium) which showed increased vascula...