Patient-Reported Symptom Relief from Percutaneous Benign Thyroid Nodule Radiofrequency Ablation in Routine Clinical Care

Patient-reported symptom relief from percutaneous ultrasound-guided thermal ablation of benign thyroid nodules in our clinic has resulted in approximately 80% clinically relevant effectiveness based on patient-reported symptom relief, with a slightly lower volume reduction rate compared with those reported in efficacy studies. Our clinic patients had larger nodule volumes than typical in published studies and many patients opted to forgo posttreatment follow-up. This likely led to underestimation of our effectiveness and volume reduction measurements.