Initial Experience of Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Using Bilateral Axillary Breast and Transoral Vestibular Approach in Georgia.

Purpose: Remote access thyroid surgery using a bilateral axillary breast approach (BABA) or a transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach (TOETVA) are increasingly performed worldwide. In the Caucasus, these methods were first applied in the Republic of Georgia. This study compares these two methods of endoscopic thyroid surgery performed on patients in a tertiary hospital in Tbilisi, Georgia.

[Evaluation the effects of percutaneous ethanol injection on the volume of benign solitary solid cold thyroid nodules].

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) outcome might be depends on the morphological structure of cold colloid thyroid nodule. Some pathologists apply terms such as colloid or adenomatous nodules to lesions which are more or less localized with areas of apparently normal or altered architecture. PEI was performed in 34 patients (9 men and 25 women, who had a mean age of 41 years, with a range of 18-76) with normal thyroid function and a solid benign thyroid nodule.

[Percutaneous ethanol injection in combination with euthyrox suppressive therapy in the treatment of benign nodular goiter].

This study was designed to clarify the efficacy of combination of thyroid hormone (euthyrox) therapy and percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) in benign nodular thyroid diseases. 55 patients with benign nodular goiter after the first PEI session during the whole study period (from 3 till 12 months after PEI) daily received euthyrox in a dosage - 50 mkg. 48 women and 7 men with thyroid nodules of the various sizes, structures and echogenecity have been included in the study group.

Effectiveness of percutaneous ethanol injection therapy in benign nodular and cystic thyroid diseases: 12-month follow-up experience.

This study was designed to clarify the long-term efficacy of percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) therapy in benign nodular and cystic thyroid diseases. Solid nodule and complex cyst were classified into three groups in accordance with volume reduction. In solid nodule (n = 38) and complex cyst (n=8), initial volume was significantly reduced to final volumes, and volume reduction persisted during follow-up period.