Publications by authors named "Danielle Macellaro Andreoni"
Purpose: To describe our group experience in treatment of benign symptomatic thyroid nodules using radiofrequency ablation technique always associated to routine pre-procedure hydrodissection and under sedation with programmed stop.
Methods: Dual-center, retrospective study conducted between April 2018 and January 2020. A total of 52 symptomatic benign thyroid nodules were treated in 34 patients with ultrasound-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation.
Objective: To evaluate safety and effectiveness of nodule volume reduction and thyroid function after percutaneous laser ablation treatment in patients with benign nonfunctioning thyroid nodules.
Methods: Prospective single-center study, from January 2011 to October 2012, which evaluated 30 euthyroid and thyroid antibodies negative patients with benign solitary or dominant nodule with indication of treatment due to compressive symptoms and aesthetic disturbances. The clinical and laboratory (thyroid ultrasound, TSH, FT4, TG, TG-Ab, TPO-Ab and TRAb levels) evaluations were performed before the procedure, and periodically 1 week, 3 months and 6 months after.
Objective: To evaluate the risk of malignancy in thyroid nodules through clinical, laboratory, ultrasonographic and cytological aspects.
Patients And Methods: 741 nodules of 407 patients.
Results: The cytology was benign (60,5%), indeterminate (23,3%), malignant (8,3%) or nondiagnostic (7,6%).
Unlabelled: The possibility of needing a combined access, with neck and chest incisions makes the treatment of substernal goiter a challenge both in the pre-op and the intraoperative. We hereby, discuss a standardization of the surgical technique to minimize the need for a chest approach, making the substernal goiter a surgically treatable disease, through a single neck incision, and with low indices of complication.
Aim: To assess the substernal goiter surgically approach through a neck incision and to analyze the surgical complications.