Benign predominantly solid thyroid nodules:prospective study of efficacy of sonographition. Baek JH,Kim YS,Lee D,et al. American Journal of Roentgenology . 2010Jung Hwan Baek,Yoon Suk Kimet al.Benign Predominantly Solid Thyroid Nodules:Prospective Study of Efficacy of Sonographically...
The efficacy of levothyroxine suppressive therapy in the treatment of benign solitary thyroid nodules is controversial. In order to investigate this issue further we studied 122 patients with a solitary, solid or predominantly solid, thyroid nodule. The benign (colloid) nature of all nodules was prov...
Nodule volumes, symptoms and cosmetic scores were evaluated before and after EA. EA efficacy in treating cystic and predominantly cystic nodules was compared; and factors related to EA efficacy in each type, including initial volume, solid component, vascularity, fluid nature, ethanol retention time ...
Recurrence was defined as nodules showing a residual solid portion with internal vascularity, cosmetic problems remaining, or persistent symptoms, and patients who requested additional therapy to resolve their symptomatic or cosmetic problems. Delayed recurrence was defined as treated nodules that showed no...