Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy, safety and patient’s pain perception of percutaneous ethanol injection treatment (PEIT) as an alternative to surgery in symptomatic thyroid cysts.Patients and methods: Thirty consecutive patients (mean age: 46±10 years; 82% women) with symptomatic thyroid cysts relapsed after drainage were included. In all cases, cytology prior to treatment, maximum cyst diameter and volume were determined. PEIT was conduct...