Research into Thyroid disease at Hospital Clínic

The main lines of research into thyroid disease at Hospital Clínic focus on different research studies aimed at differential diagnosis and the medical and surgical treatment of nodular thyroid pathology, including: 

• Assessment of short- and long-term complications and quality of life of the transaxillary approach in thyroid surgery;  
• Application of a hybrid diffuse ultrasound-optical tool in the differential diagnosis of thyroid nodules with non-diagnostic cytology;  
• Assessment of complication treatment and the long-term recurrence of benign thyroid nodules after percutaneous thermal ablative treatment (microwave, laser, radiofrequency).  

In the medical scope, Hospital Clínic has several ongoing lines of research, including work on the molecular basis of sporadic and hereditary thyroid cancer in order to assess prevention, early diagnosis, prognosis and drug response. New hybrid imaging techniques are also being investigated for diagnostic certainty relating to benign thyroid nodules. In addition, minimally invasive percutaneous thermal ablation techniques are being investigated for the echo-guided ablative treatment of symptomatic benign thyroid nodules.