Thyroid No Surgery 101: Dr. Guttler’s Rules to Avoid Unnecessary Thyroid Surgery. When your primary tells you to skip seeing an endocrinologist or thyroidologist and go direct to have a biopsy and then to the surgeon say no and seek a...
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Thyroid No Surgery 2: The Art of Refusing a Thyroid Needle Biopsy with the Help of a Second Opinion Background: When too many routine or screening thyroid ultrasounds are done without an indication there are many patients found with small...
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What is Thyroid HIFU 101? A Chinese Dish or an Alternative Treatment for Benign Thyroid Nodules High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU): Another Non-Surgical Alternative to Surgery? High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a new, promising...
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What is Active Surveillance AS for Thyroid Cancer? Overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer is epidemic in the world. By age 50, half of the population has at least one thyroid nodule, and by age 90, almost everyone does — making the portion of the...
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Interventional Endocrine/Thyroidologists 2017: We are not Radiologists Five months after visiting an interventional endocrine thyroidologist in Europe after my candidate evaluation she is seen here with a normal looking neck after...
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HIFU: Another Alternative to Thyroid surgery for Thyroid Nodules? What is HIFU? High Intensity Focused Ultrasound.It is dual focus of two sonar beams to a focal point to make heat. This heat is enough to destroy benign thyroid nodules. A recent...
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Why Take a Chance With Your Local Low Volume Surgeon to Do Your Total Thyroidectomy for Thyroid Disease and Cancer? Surgical Experience and Effect on Outcomes When it Comes to Your Thyroid Surgery When less is not more Dr.Julia Soza of...
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Toxic Nodules are slow growing and difficult to diagnose They take years for the abnormal DNA clone of to take over and first produce subclinical hyperthyroidism and even more years to recruit enough cells to make an elderly patient toxic. Even...
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One Size Does Not Fit All When It Comes the Decision to Biopsy a Thyroid Nodule Just like the refusal to do ultrasound in a screening or routine basis is essential to decrease unnecessary biopsies and surgery, refusal to allow a biopsy for very...
More infoWhat can Go Wrong When an Thyroid Ultrasound finds a Nodule? The top two ultrasounds describe a 1 cm nodule between the markers. The ultrasounds from my center above shows no nodule but the presence of an area that is not a nodule but a...
More info Thyroid Nodules in 2017: A Year of Big Changes in How to Treat Thyroid Nodules The presence of a thyroid nodule causes great concern to the patient. That is why the finding of thyroid nodules with high powered imaging like ultrasound and CT/MR...
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2017 Thyroid New Years Resolutions: How to Avoid Biopsies and Surgery Background: Too many thyroid ultrasounds on people with no clinical indication. Too many biopsies on small harmless nodules, and too many surgeries on small harmless thyroid...
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