Ultrasound-Guided Ethanol Percutaneous Ablation Versus Rescue Surgery in Patients With Locoregional Recurrence of Papillary Thyroid Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Neck recurrence of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is frequently detected after initial surgery. The management of these lesions may include rescue surgery (RS) or minimally invasive techniques in selected patients, but comparative studies evaluating the effectiveness and safety of these techniques are lacking. In this paper, we compared ultrasound-guided ethanol ablation (EA) in selected patients to RS in a matched cohort.

Methods

We retrospectively compared 41 patients and 41 matched PTC patients without known distant metastases, who underwent ultrasound-guided EA or RS (matched reference group), who had 63 and 75 thyroid bed and/or lymph node confirmed PTC recurrences during a median follow-up of 72.8 and 89.6 months, respectively. The primary outcome was time u

SUBMITTER: Tofe S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710927 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature