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Laser Ablation of Thyroid Cancer and Metastatic Lymph Nodes

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Laser ablation (LA) provides us with a new effective therapy for the treatment of thyroid carcinomas and cervical lymph node metastases in the neck, thanks to its minimally invasive and high thermal energy precision, particularly for the patients with recurrent metastatic nodal disease in the neck. Although it is unlikely that LA changes the clinical course, it can be performed repeatedly as a local adjuvant therapy for recurrence of the regional disease and can become a palliative treatment in selected patients who are not eligible for surgery and/or prefer not to undergo further surgery. There are many retrospective and case-series studies that show that LA is safe and effective not just to reduce mortality.

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  1. Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Tian’an Jiang

  2. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy

    Luigi Solbiati

  3. Department of Ultrasound, Rui Jin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ruijin, China

    Weiwei Zhan

  4. Division of Interventional Radiology, European Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Mauri

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Jiang, T., Solbiati, L., Zhan, W., Mauri, G. (2020). Laser Ablation of Thyroid Cancer and Metastatic Lymph Nodes. In: Pacella, C., Jiang, T., Mauri, G. (eds) Image-guided Laser Ablation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21748-8_8

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