Abstract
Image guided ablations might be regarded as a promising effective and safe alternative for treatment of recurrent thyroid cancer in particular in patients with high surgical risk or refusing surgery. Furthermore, image guided ablations seems to represent a promising alternative to surgery or observation for micropapillary thyroid carcinoma, with the aim of providing an effective treatment with minimal invasiveness. Further studies are necessary to confirm the role in this setting
Highlights
Thyroid nodules are a very frequent condition in general population, with a prevalence ranging between 20% and 76% [1]
In order to reduce the invasiveness of treatment, in the past years image guided ablations have been successfully applied in the treatment of benign thyroid nodules to obtain a meaningful reduction in nodule’s size and consequent improvement of related symptoms [8,9,10,11,12,13]
radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has been successfully applied in the treatment of recurrent thyroid cancers in patients considered at high surgical risk or refusing surgery
Summary
Thyroid nodules are a very frequent condition in general population, with a prevalence ranging between 20% and 76% [1]. The standard treatment of benign nodules of thyroid is still represented by thyroidectomy (total or partial) [4, 6] which, remain a major surgical procedure, with correlated morbidity and potential complications ranging between 2.5% and 8.1% [7]. In order to reduce the invasiveness of treatment, in the past years image guided ablations have been successfully applied in the treatment of benign thyroid nodules to obtain a meaningful reduction in nodule’s size and consequent improvement of related symptoms [8,9,10,11,12,13].
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