Ultrasound-guided interstitial laser ablation for thyroid nodules is effective only at high total amounts of energy: Results from a three-year pilot study

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 345-350

  Gambelunghe, Giovanni ^a   Fede, Raffaela ^a   Bini, Vittorio ^a   Monacelli, Massimo ^b   Avenia, Nicola ^a   D'Ajello, Michele ^b   Colella, Renato ^a   Nasini, Giovanni ^a   De Feo, Pierpaolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

laser ablation; multinodular goiter; thyroid nodules

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NODULAR GOITER; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ULTRASOUND GUIDED LASER ABLATION;

LASER ABLATION; MULTINODULAR GOITER; THYROID NODULES;

AGED; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84872957414     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: 15533514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350612459276     Document Type: Article

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