Open AccessRadiofrequency ablation for thyroid nodules: which indications? The first Italian opinion statement
Author(s) -
R Garberoglio,
Camillo Aliberti,
Marialuisa Appetecchia,
Marco Attard,
Giuseppe Boccuzzi,
Flavio Boraso,
Giorgio Borretta,
Giuseppe Caruso,
Maurilio Deandrea,
M Freddi,
G. Gallone,
Giovanni Gandini,
Guido Gasparri,
Carlo Gazzera,
Ezio Ghigo,
Maurizio Grosso,
Paolo Piero Limone,
Mauro Maccario,
Luigi Mansi,
Alberto Mormile,
Pier Giorgio Nasi,
Fabio Orlandi,
Donatella Pacchioni,
Claudio Maurizio Pacella,
N Palestini,
Enrico Papini,
Maria Rosa Pelizzo,
Andrea Piotto,
Teresa Rago,
Fabrizio Riganti,
L Rosato,
Ruth Rossetto,
Antonio Scarmozzino,
Stefano Spiezia,
O. Testori,
Roberto Valcavi,
Andrea Veltri,
Paolo Vitti,
Matteo Zingrillo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1971-3495
pISSN - 1876-7931
DOI - 10.1007/s40477-015-0169-y
Subject(s) - medicine , thyroid nodules , thyroid , asymptomatic , thyroid cancer , thyroidectomy , levothyroxine , population , surgery , radiology , environmental health
Nodular thyroid disease is a very common finding in\udclinical practice, discovered by ultrasound (US) in about\ud50 % of the general population, with higher prevalence in\udwomen and in the elderly [1–4].\udWhereas therapeutic flowchart is quite established and\udshared for malignant lesions, multiple options are now\udavailable for patients presenting with benign thyroid nod-\udules, ranging from simple clinical and US follow-up to\udthyroid surgery. The majority of thyroid nodules, benign by\udfine-needle aspiration, are asymptomatic, stable, or slow-\udgrowing over time and require no treatmen