Background: Local ablative treatments play an important role for patients who cannot be treated surgically. Radiofrequency ablation is a well-established alternative to surgical treatment of thyroid nodules, however it also has disadvantages. Microwave ablation (MWA) is a new minimally invasive treatment promising several improvements. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the eff...

background: local ablative treatments play an important role for patients who cannot be treated surgically. radiofrequency ablation is a well-established alternative to surgical treatment of thyroid nodules, however it also has disadvantages. microwave ablation (mwa) is a new minimally invasive treatment promising several improvements. the aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the eff...

Introduction: In spite of large number of studies regarding relation between thyroid cancer and childhood irradiation, contraversy still exists management of these patients. This study tries to find optimal method of thyroid evaluation in this group. Methods and patients: In a recall program using mass media in Khorasan, all patients with childhood irradiation were invited for thyroid eva...

Introduction: Extraosseous accumulation of 99mTc – methylene diphosphonate (MDP) may be due to neoplastic, dystrophic, hormonal, inflammatory, ischemic, traumatic or excretory disorders. 99mTc-MDP incidental thyroid uptake is not frequent and is possibly caused by the presence of dystrophic or metastatic calcification, biopsy procedure and presence of beni...

Background: To compare thyroid volume , thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) , Free T4  and  prevalence of thyroid nodules between obese and  non-obese subjects .Also,  association  between BMI  and insulin resistance status with various parameters of thyroid gland was evaluated. Methods: Fifty –two patients with obesity and 38 normal body mass index (BMI ) volunteers, aged 20-50 years , were enr...

background: sonoelastography is a new ultrasound method which could be helpful to determine which thyroid nodule is malignant. we designed this study to evaluate the accuracy of sonoelastography in differentiating of benign and malignant thyroid nodules in iranian patients. methods: forty thyroid nodules in forty consecutive patients who had been referred for sonography‑guided fine‑needle aspir...

prevalence of thyroid nodules diagnosed by ultrasonography has been reported to be high (about 50%) probably due to iodine deficiency in our region. most thyroid nodules benign but some require treatment for cosmetic reasons or subjective symptoms. the conventional method of treatment in iran is surgery. for the first time in iran, from february 2016, 50 patients with 63 nodules (solid or cysti...