[Fine needle puncture--method of treatment in nodular pathology of the thyroid].

Fine needle biopsy (FNB) has been used as a therapeutic method in different nodular lesions of the thyroid. Between 1989-1995, 295 subjects with thyroid cysts, 235 women and 60 men have been treated by FNB. The treatment of cysts was performed by: one or multiple aspirations in 207 cases, sclerosis by injection with tetracycline in 77 cases and by ethanol washing in 11 cases.

[Therapy with large doses of methylprednisolone in Basedow's ophthalmopathy].

Up to now there is no satisfactory therapeutical method in Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO). Recently, several authors have published the results of the so-called "pulse" method of corticotherapy, using intravenous methylprednisolone (MP) 1 g dissolved in 200 ml isotonic NaCl solution. We have treated with this method 4 patients (3 women and 1 man, aged between 35-62 years) with severe GO (III-V class after AMT Classification).