Interní Med. 2018; 20(3): 147-149 | DOI: 10.36290/int.2018.027

Simultaneous ultrasound‑guided percutaneous ethanol injection therapy of two thyroid cysts

MUDr. Milan Halenka, Ph.D., Bc. Charlotte Mlčochová

III. interní klinika – nefrologická, revmatologická, endokrinologická, FN a LF UP Olomouc

Ultrasound-guided Percutaneous Ethanol Injection Therapy (US-PEIT) has been already established as a routine and safe treatmentof symptomatic thyroid cysts. Preferably it can be used in young women who refuse surgery. For the vast majority of patients,ethanol sclerotherapy is used to resolve one dominant cyst. Exceptionally, two or more large cysts can be solved in multinodulargoiter. In such a case, it is more appropriate and less risky to perform therapy in several steps (each cyst separately). In the centrewith long time experience and consistent results simultaneous US-PEIT can be done. Successful simultaneous ethanol sclerotherapyof two thyroid cysts (16 ml and 6 ml) in both lobes is described in the presented case report. In addition to solving the aestheticproblem, the benefit to the patient was an overall reduction in treatment time.

Keywords: simultaneous ultrasound‑guidedpercutaneous ethanol injection therapy, thyroid cysts

Published: July 1, 2018  Show citation