Ultrasound-guided laser ablation of incidental papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: A potential therapeutic approach in patients at surgical risk

Thyroid

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 917-920

  Papini, Enrico ^a   Guglielmi, Rinaldo ^a   Hosseim, Gharib ^b   Misischi, Irene ^a   Graziano, Filomena ^a   Chianelli, Marco ^a   Crescenzi, Anna ^a   Bianchini, Antonio ^a   Valle, Dario ^a   Bizzarri, Giancarlo ^a  

^a REGINA APOSTOLORUM HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; LIDOCAINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KIDNEY FAILURE; LASER SURGERY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NECK; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PAPILLARY THYROID MICROCARCINOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; THERAPY EFFECT; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TUMOR CELL; ULTRASOUND;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 79961193867     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2010.0447     Document Type: Article

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