Design and Patients: Seven patients with autonomous hyperfunctioning thyroid nodule (group A) and five patients with compressive nodular goiter (group B) were treated with LTA. Up to three needles ...

Group B included five female euthyroid patients (age ranging between 63 and 81 years, mean ± SD: 69.4 ± 7.3 years) with compressive nodular goiter ... a solid pattern at ultrasound; cytology ...