Percutaneous Ethanol Injection in the Treatment of Pediatric Nodular Goiter
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Abstract
This study was to define efficacy and safety of method percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) in the treatment of thyroid cystic nodules of 20 girls and 1 boy at the age of 12—17. In 19 cases PEI was performed with purpose of elimination of cosmetic problems, and in 2 cases among them (nodule volume 31.7 and 44.1 ml) it was done also for liquidation of neck compression. 4 months later after doing the procedure, the volume of nodules in the group of children, which had been studied, decreased on an average 95.5%, and after 12.6—41.3 months of medical observation it kept the same level of volume. In one case a transient paresis n. recurrence was fixed. It retrogressed after 2 weeks spontaneously. The high efficacy PEI among children and adolescents was established, which didn’t depend on the sizes of the nodules and combination of levothyroxine suppressive therapy. It didn’t depend on the facts, which were connected with methodology of procedure either. The efficacy PEI was higher with cystic component, taking more than a half of the volume of nodule.
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