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

Adjuvant radioactive iodine therapy is widely used to treat well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC ... review of controlled studies of radioiodine therapy in such patients.

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 ...

Radioiodine will be excreted from the patient primarily by the kidneys, and consequently, the patient should be encouraged to drink freely to minimize dose to kidneys, bladder and gonads. Benign ...

It is not possible to identify directly whether reduced radioiodine uptake between diagnostic and ... of cytolysis and membrane damage of residual thyroid tissue induced by the scanning dose ...