A number of clinical and epidemiological studies suggest that the incidence of autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), such as Hashimoto thyroiditis and Graves disease, goes up as dietary iodine ...

Thyroid disease refers to all conditions affecting the thyroid gland and how much thyroid hormone it can make; these include hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, thyroid cancer, and different types of ...

Debates regarding thyroid stunning -- a phenomenon whereby a diagnostic dose of radioiodine decreases uptake of a subsequent ... follow-up after initial radioactive iodine therapy, many use ...

A "hypothyroid group" consisted of 12 patients with ... data (PBI,¶ thyroidal uptake of I 131 or basal metabolic rate). The effects of three preparations of desiccated thyroid on PBI were observed.

Diagnosis of chronic sialadenitis can readily be accomplished when the patient's history of having received radioactive iodine is factored ... decreased right parotid uptake (arrow) when compared ...

Adjuvant radioactive iodine therapy is widely used to treat well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC), but is known to result in radiation absorption by the testes, the long-term effects of ...