A male patient had undergone total thyroidectomy for thyroid papillary carcinoma. He was administered thyroablation activity of radioiodine. Whole body imaging after diagnostic activity of 131-I demonstrated intense radioiodine uptake in the right side of the upper abdominal region. The serum thyroglobulin level was low. Ultrasonography demonstrated a large irregular anechoic structure in the c...

Measurement of the rate of accumulation of radioiodine by the thyroid gland is of considerable clinical value, since in most instances an avid uptake of radioiodine may be correctly assumed to be due to a high rate of uptake of stable iodide by the thyroid. This measurement, expressed as a percentage of the administered radioiodine dose accumulated per unit time by the thyroid, does not give a ...

RATIONALE Since ovarian function is only temporarily compromised by radioiodine therapy, many women with thyroid cancer treated with radioiodine can become pregnant. The present study evaluated the evolution of these pregnancies and the consequences for the offspring. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 78 pregnancies of 66 women submitted to total thyroidectomy, followed by radi...

Patterns of fecal radioiodine excretion were studied in seven normal young men with intact, unblocked thyroid glands, who received repeated oral daily doses of [125I]iodide in an attempt to achieve isotopic equilibrium. Fecal radioactivity was assumed to have originated either in the circulating inorganic radioiodine (radioiodide) compartment or in the circulating hormonal protein-bound iodine ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The purpose of this study is to review our experience with sialendoscopy for the management of radioiodine-induced sialadenitis. METHODS Retrospective chart review of all patients with radioiodine-induced sialadenitis treated with interventional sialendoscopy. RESULTS Twelve female patients with a mean age of 46.5 years (range, 25-77 years) underwent interventional sia...

BACKGROUND/AIM The aim of this study was to document the effect of the application of prophylactic central compartment dissection on radioiodine ablation activities for papillary thyroid carcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study included 452 (383 females, 69 males; mean age = 46.69 years, min-max: 13-71) patients who received ablative radioiodine activity between April 2010 an...

Ten cases of Ménétrier's disease (;giant hypertrophic gastritis') have been studied with radioiodine-labelled albumin (all 10 cases), IgG (eight cases), transferrin (two cases), and IgM (six cases). Abnormal gastric loss of plasma protein was present in all cases as demonstrated by (59)Fe-iron dextran (eight cases), (51)Cr-albumin (one case), and (131)I-polyvinylpyrrolidone (one case). None of ...

OBJECTIVE Patients with thyroid cancer may require detailed anatomic imaging before 131I therapy. Imaging by contrast-enhanced CT is contraindicated because it may result in saturation of tissues with iodine, decreasing the avidity of thyroid or thyroid cancer cells to subsequent radioiodine for extended intervals. Gadolinium-enhanced MRI offers an alternative to CT for detailed anatomic imagin...

radioiodine therapy is the safest, simplest, least expensive and most effective method for treatment of hyperthyroidism. the method employed in this research was a systematic bibliographic review, in which only valid studies or the clinically detailed enough open-labeled studies using validated scales were used. iodine-131 (i-131) acts by the destructive effect of short-range beta radiation on ...