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Ultrasound-guided percutaneous ethanol injection in papillary thyroid cancer metastatic lymph-nodes
Guia Vannucchi1, Danila Covelli, Michela Perrino
1Endocrine Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda, Milan and Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Via Sforza, 35, 20122, Milan, Italy, guiava@libero.it.
Unlabelled:
Post-operative neck nodal metastases are detected in 9-20 % of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Ultrasound-guided ethanol injection (UPEI) has been used with promising results in the treatment of PTC patients with limited number of lymph-node metastases.
Clinical Case:
We report the imaging and biochemical documentation of UPEI results in four metastatic neck lymph-nodes of papillary thyroid-cancer. A significant reduction both in the diameter of the lymph-nodes and in the serum thyroglobulin levels were observed in all cases and have been reported in a step-by-step sequence.
Conclusion:
the UPEI treatment is a simple and suitable tool for the treatment of PTC cervical lymph-node metastases.
