Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: Although some studies presented good outcome of Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) for Papillary Thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC), its benefit has not been fully elucidated. The purpose of our study was to report the results from a prospective study investigating efficacy and safety of RFA in active surveillance candidate for low-risk PTMC. Materials and Methods: Since November 2018, RFA has been prospectively performed in active surveillance candidates...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of biopsy criteria in four society ultrasonography (US)-based risk stratification systems (RSSs) or thyroid imaging reporting and data system (TIRADS) including the 2021 Korean (K)-TIRADS for thyroid nodules.Methods: Ovid-Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane, and KoreaMed databases were searched and other eligible articles by manual search were included to identify original articles invest...