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Positron Emission Tomography

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a scanning technique that uses an MRI scanner and radioactive substances that are injected into the blood stream to obtain detailed images of the brain that rel...

Adjuvant Lithium and Radioactive Iodine in Thyroid Disease

Should patients receiving radioactive iodine for hyperthyroidism also receive this mood stabilizer? Clinical Endocrinology

Thyroid cancer: Successful remnant ablation—what is success?

Radioactive iodine ablation therapy is a standard treatment for most patients with differentiated thyroid cancer to prevent relapse. The effective dose of radioactive iodine and optimal preparation ha...

Radioactive iodine may predispose young thyroid cancer patients to second primary malignancies

Children and young adult thyroid cancer patients who are treated with radioactive iodine have an elevated risk of developing a second primary malignancy, according to new data presented at the 82nd An...

Children, young adults treated with radioactive iodine at elevated risk of developing secondary primary cancer

Children and young adult thyroid cancer patients who are treated with radioactive iodine have an elevated risk of developing a second primary malignancy, according to new data.

Radioactive iodine benefits selected papillary thyroid cancer patients

Radioactive iodine may be selectively used for the treatment of intermediate-risk papillary thyroid cancer in patients who are aged over 45 years with tumors smaller than 4 cm that are confined to the...

Radioactive iodine should only be used in treatment of some patients with papillary thyroid cancer

Radioactive iodine should only be used in the treatment of some patients with papillary thyroid cancer, according to data presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA)...

Iodine Supplementation During Pregnancy and Lactation Iodine Supplementation During Pregnancy/Lactation

Dietary iodine intake is obligatory for the production of thyroid hormones. Despite substantial public health advances over the past 3 decades, iodine deficiency currently affects 1.92 billion people...

[Comment] Iodine and pregnancy: a call to action

Iodine, a crucial micronutrient, is essential for thyroid hormone production and for normal in-utero neuro-development. During pregnancy, iodine intake must be increased by 50% because of physiologica...

Thyroid cancer patients' involvement in adjuvant radioactive iodine treatment decision-making and decision regret: an exploratory study.

PURPOSE: We explored regret in thyroid cancer patients, relating to the decision to accept or reject adjuvant radioactive iodine treatment....

Removal of radioactive iodine from water using Ag(2)O grafted titanate nanolamina as efficient adsorbent.

Emergency treatment of radioactive material leakage and safety disposal of nuclear waste is a constant concern all along with the development of radioactive materials applications. To provide a soluti...

Prenatal diagnosis of fetal hypothyroidism after maternal radioactive iodine exposure during pregnancy.

A 33-year-old woman with a history of surgically treated papillary thyroid carcinoma was inadvertently given radioactive iodine when she was 16 weeks pregnant. Sonographic examination revealed fetal t...

Decision aid on radioactive iodine treatment for early stage papillary thyroid cancer - a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Patients with early stage papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), are faced with the decision to either to accept or reject adjuvant radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment after thryroide...

A risk-adapted approach to the use of radioactive iodine and external beam radiation in the treatment of well-differentiated thyroid cancer.

Both radioactive iodine (RAI) and external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) offer important clinical benefits in properly selected patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. With the increased emphasis...