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Efficacy of Sonographically Guided Percutaneous Ethanol Injection for Treatment of Thyroid Cysts Versus Solid Thyroid Nodules

Jin Hyoung Kim1, Ho Kyu Lee1, Jung Hyun Lee1, II Min Ahn2 and Choong Gon Choi1

1 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1 Poongnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea.
2 Department of Endocrinology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea.



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  		Fig. 1A. —29-year-old woman with complex thyroid cystic nodule. Sonogram obtained before ethanol sclerotherapy shows complex cyst in left lobe of thyroid gland (volume of cystic portion, 34.2 mL).

 


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  		Fig. 1B. —29-year-old woman with complex thyroid cystic nodule. Sonogram obtained 3 months after ethanol sclerotherapy reveals that volume of cystic component of complex nodule (arrowheads) decreased by 99.2% (volume of cystic portion, 0.3 mL).

 


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  		Fig. 2A. —26-year-old woman with solid thyroid nodule. Sonogram obtained before sclerotherapy shows solid nodule in right thyroid lobe (volume, 3.8 cm3).

 


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  		Fig. 2B. —26-year-old woman with solid thyroid nodule. Sonogram obtained 3 months after ethanol sclerotherapy indicates that volume of nodule has decreased by 61% (volume, 1.5 cm3).

 


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  		Fig. 3. —Graph shows volume-reduction rate and volume percentage of ethanol in cystic and solid nodules. {diamondsuit} = cystic nodule (p < 0.01, Student's t test); {blacktriangleup} = solid nodule (p > 0.01, Student's t test).

 

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