Year Country Study design No. of patients Success rate (%)
Del Prete et al. [5] 2002 Italy Prospective 98 93.8
  Yoon et al. [9] 2013 Korea Retrospective 40 100
Sung et al. [31] 2011 Korea Retrospective 36 94.4
Park et al. [32] 2011 Korea Retrospective 40 100
Lv G et al. [33] 2014 China Prospective 71 94.2
Kim DW. [34] 2014 Korea Prospective 25 100
In et al. [35] 2013 Korea Retrospective 64 81.3
Sung et al. [36] 2013 Korea Prospective 50 100
Kanotra et al. [37] 2008 India Prospective 40 85
Kim YJ et al. [38] 2012 Korea Retrospective 217 90.3
Table 2: Studies evaluating percutaneous ethanol treatment in cystic thyroid nodules.