Thyroid Artery Embolization for the Treatment of Compressive Goiters.

This study is a prospective interventional cohort study. The prospective cohort setting allows us to evaluate the direct effect of TAE on a series of patients on a longer period and to strengthen the retrospective data previously documented in other studies. Included patients will have compressive symptoms or significant tracheal or oesophageal compression at risk of causing symptoms attributed to a goiter. They have to be Ineligible for surgery/ablative treatments or preference for TAE over other treatments. There is no comparative group in our study as it aims to prove that TAE is effective and safe in a "nonsurgical" population, a population in which other alternatives lack or are refused by the patient. Our sampling method will be a non-probabilistic convenience sampling. Patients will be recruited in an outpatient setting by the patient's treating endocrinologist or otolaryngologist.