Design and Patients: Seven patients with autonomous hyperfunctioning thyroid nodule (group A) and five patients with compressive nodular goiter (group B) were treated with LTA. Up to three needles ...

Medical therapy with levothyroxine to decrease serum TSH levels in patients with nonfunctioning thyroid nodules achieves very limited, if any, goiter ... the principle that ultrasound-guided ...

Group B included five female euthyroid patients (age ranging between 63 and 81 years, mean ± SD: 69.4 ± 7.3 years) with compressive nodular goiter ... a solid pattern at ultrasound; cytology ...