Thyroid Cancer No Unneeded Surgery 101; Low Risk= No or Less Surgery DR.G comments on this review article on low risk papillary thyroid cancers Juan P Brito et al BMJ 2014; 348 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g3045 1.Patients with these small...
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Thyroid Cancer No surgery 101: Thyroid Tumor Radiofrequency Ablation RFA for Recurrent Thyroid Cancers Dr.G. comments on this article in Korean Biomedical Reviews Thyroid tumor Radiofrequency ablation RFA, removes benign “nodules” from the...
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Thyroid Cancer in Children 101: Endocrine Neck Ultrasound Best for recurrent disease in the neck lymph nodes. 1. Children with PTC who have residual/recurrent disease are most likely to have cervical lymph node disease...
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Thyroid Nodules in Kids 101: How Common? 1.Thyroid nodules are less common among children but are more likely to be malignant. (22% vs 5%). ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4854274 2. Estimates from ultrasound (US) and postmortem...
More info Thyroid Cancer in Children 101: Is It A Different Animal Than In Adults? Comments by Dr.G. thyroid.com 1. Thyroid nodules are uncommon in children. 2. However, nodules diagnosed in children carry a greater risk of malignancy compared to...
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Thyroid Nodules and Cancer in Children 101 Comments by Dr.G. on the incidence in children. 1. New cases of thyroid cancer in people age <20 represent 1.8% of all thyroid malignancies diagnosed in the United...
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Thyroid No surgery 101: Diagnostic Endocrine Neck Ultrasound in Small Thyroid Nodules World J Surg. 2017 May 24. Peng Y et al Comments: We use taller than wide calcifications and blood flow as criteria for suspicious nodules but...
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Thyroid No Surgery 101: How to Avoid Unnecessary Testing, Biopsies and Surgery Refuse a thyroid ultrasound if requested by your physician if he or she can not give you an indication that it is really needed. Indications are a palpable nodule...
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Editorial to Endocrinologists: Don’t Let Radiologists Take Control of Thyroid Tumor Ablation of Nodules and Cancer. Since 1970’s I have seen endocrinologists slowly lose control of areas of medicine that could have resulted in a...
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Micropapillary Thyroid Cancer: What Should the Patient Do with This Diagnosis? Comments by Dr.Guttler. Dr.Guttler presentation on ethanol Ablation at national endocrine meeting. You have three choices...
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Thyroid Ethanol Ablation PEI of Thyroid Cysts: What is the Recurrence Rate and what is the results of retreatment with a second PEI or RFA session? Key points about PEI recurrence and the causes are listed here. Ethanol ablation PEI showed...
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Final Words on Thyroid RFA by Dr.Guttler Main weaknesses is in using RFA on the thyroid gland include the lack of definitive histology, possibility of incomplete nodule ablation, and surveillance problems for the residual thyroid mass after RFA...
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