Sonographically guided percutaneous ethanol injection for therapy of thyroid benign lesion

• Published in: Zhonghua er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Chinese journal of otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery Vol. 43; no. 6; p. 428
• Main Authors: Niu, Li-Juan, Li, Hong-Lin, Li, Zheng-Jiang, Tang, Ping-Zhang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 01.06.2008
• Subjects: Adult; Ethanol - administration & dosage; Ethanol - therapeutic use; Female; Humans; Injections, Intralesional; Male; Thyroid Diseases - diagnostic imaging; Thyroid Diseases - drug therapy; Thyroid Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Thyroid Neoplasms - therapy; Ultrasonography
• ISSN: 1673-0860

To develop the microtrauma therapy for thyroid benign lesion, to evaluate efficacy of sonographically guided percutaneous ethanol injection for therapy of thyroid benign lesion. Thirty-two patients with thyroid benign lesion were treated in Cancer Hospital, the patients had thyroid disease with cystic or cystic and solid nodule without heart and lung disease, and no allergy to ethanol, but the most diameter was below 3 cm for the solid disease. These patients were divided into two groups, the first group were 14 patients (from June 2002 to August 2003), the second group was 18 patients (from September 2003 to March 2006). The mean injection times was four (1-6) in the first group, the volume of each ethanol injection made the absolute ethanol well-distributed and kept slight compression intralesional for five minutes for solid disease. Partial liquid was extracted for cystic disease first, and 2-10 ml ethanol was injected into cyst, the internal time between two punctures was one week. Each patient received s