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Surgical treatment of thyroid follicular neoplasms: results of a retrospective analysis of a large clinical series.
Endocrine
February 2017
Department of Mental Health and Preventive Medicine, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy.
The most appropriate surgical management of "follicular neoplasm/suspicious for follicular neoplasm" lesions (FN), considering their low definitive malignancy rate and the limited predictive power of preoperative clinic-diagnostic factors, is still controversial. On behalf of the Italian Association of Endocrine Surgery Units (U.E.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThyroid nodules and related symptoms are stably controlled two years after radiofrequency thermal ablation.
Thyroid
March 2009
Department of Surgery, Ultrasound Guided & Neck Pathologies Surgery Operative Unit, S. Maria del Popolo degli Incurabili ASLNA1 Hospital, Naples, Italy.
Background: Percutaneous radiofrequency thermal ablation (RTA) is a promising new therapeutic approach to manage thyroid nodules (TNs). The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term effectiveness of RTA in inducing shrinkage of TNs as well as in controlling compressive symptoms and thyroid hyperfunction in a large series of elderly subjects with solid or mainly solid benign TNs.
Methods: Ninety-four elderly patients with cytologically benign compressive TNs were prospectively enrolled in the study; 66 of them had nontoxic goiter and 28 had toxic or pretoxic goiter.