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The Distribution of Radioactive Iodine (1-131) in Experimental Coccidioidomycosis
Iodine and its compounds have been used on an empirical basis in the treatment of various infectious diseases for many years. Its therapeutic efficacy in the past has been recorded in such diseases as the gumma of syphilis (1), North American blastomycosis, chromoblastomycosis and cryptococcosis (2). lodides are still recommended as specific therapy in sporo trichosis and their administration c...
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Author details Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Radiation Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh 59046, Saudi Arabia. Endocrinology and thyroid Oncology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh 59046, Saudi Arabia. Radiation Oncology, NCI, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Histopathology, Kin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/199898a0