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Lin Zheng1, Jian-Ping Dou1, Zhi-Yu Han1
1From the Department of Interventional Ultrasound, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100853, China (L.Z., J.P.D., Z.Y.H., F.Y.L., J.Y., Z.G.C., X.L.Y., P.L.); Department of Ultrasound, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China (H.W.); Department of Electrodiagnosis, the Affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China (Z.B.C., X.W.); Department of Medical Ultrasound, Yantai Hospital of Shandong Wendeng Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Yantai, China (S.R.W., Y.L.); Department of Interventional Ultrasound Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China (M.A.Y.); First Department of Surgery, Hebei Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, China (Z.F.X., Y.Z.); First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China (Y.C.); Department of Surgery, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing, China (B.N.); Department of Ultrasound, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, China (C.L.); and Department of Ultrasound, Mudanjiang Tumor Hospital, Mudanjiang, China (Y.H.).
Abstract:
Background Microwave ablation (MWA) has achieved favorable results in the treatment of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) confined in glandular parenchyma. However, studies on the outcome of MWA for PTMC with US-detected capsular invasion remain unclarified in the literature. Purpose To compare the feasibility, effectiveness, and safety of MWA in the treatment of PTMC with and without US-detected capsular invasion. Materials and Methods Participants from 12 hospitals with a PTMC maximal diameter of 1 cm or less without US- or CT-detected lymph node metastasis (LNM) who planned to undergo MWA were enrolled in this prospective study between December 2019 and April 2021. All tumors were evaluated with preoperative US and were divided into those with and those without capsular invasion. The participants were observed until July 1, 2022. The primary end points, including technical success and disease progression, and the secondary end points, including treatment parameters, complications, and tumor shrinkage during follow-up, were compared between the two groups, and multivariable regression was performed. Results After exclusion, 461 participants (mean age, 43 years ± 11 [SD]; 337 women) were included: 83 with and 378 without capsular invasion. After one participant with capsular invasion aborted MWA because of technical failure, 82 participants with and 378 participants without capsular invasion (mean tumor volume, 0.1 mL ± 0.1 vs 0.1 mL ± 0.1; P = .07) were analyzed with a mean follow-up period of 20 months ± 4 (range, 12-25 months) and 21 months ± 4 (range, 11-26 months), respectively. In those with and those without capsular invasion, comparable technical success rates were achieved (99% [82 of 83] vs 100% [378 of 378], P = .18), with one and 11 complications, respectively (1% [one of 82] vs 3% [11 of 378], P = .38). There was no evidence of differences in disease progression (2% [one of 82] vs 1% [four of 378]; P = .82) or tumor shrinkage (mean, 97% ± 8 [SD] vs 96% ± 13; P = .58). Conclusion Microwave ablation was feasible in the treatment of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma with US-detected capsular invasion and showed comparable short-term efficacy with or without the presence of capsular invasion. © RSNA, 2023 Clinical trial registration no. NCT04197960 Supplemental material is available for this article.
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