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MANY patients receive iodine-containing medication that can alter the results of concomitantly performed determinations of radioiodine uptake or serum protein-bound iodine. When the iodine is an ...

Hospital staff brief patients on safety. Radioiodine may be given to patients of any age but it is less frequently given to children under 10. Long term follow-up of children who have been treated ...

Debates regarding thyroid stunning -- a phenomenon whereby a diagnostic dose of radioiodine decreases uptake of a subsequent therapeutic dose by remnant thyroid tissue or by functioning metastases ...

conducted a systematic review of controlled studies of radioiodine therapy in such patients. Longitudinal studies of the effect of a single dose of ≤150 mCi (5.56 GBq) of radioiodine showed that ...

Patients with iodine-induced subclinical and clinical hyperthyroidism should be carefully medicated to normalize thyroid function before radioiodine treatment for multinodular goiters, according ...