Racing heart, fevered brow, and worried mind? Your condition could be more serious than anxiety, and it could be time to get your thyroid checked. The thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped organ in the ...

Learn what nuclear medicine is and what a radioactive iodine uptake test can do to support your thyroid health.

Selumetinib produces clinically meaningful increases in iodine uptake and retention in a subgroup of patients with thyroid cancer that is refractory to radioiodine; the effectiveness may be ...

A radioactive iodine uptake test shows how well your thyroid functions. Discover how the RAIU compares to a thyroid scan and what you should do afterward.

THE most widely applied technic involving the use of radioactive iodine in the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism is the measurement of the thyroid uptake after the oral administration of tracer doses. T ...

Since a thyroid uptake scan demonstrated no uptake in this patient, inadvertent subtotal thyroidectomy is unlikely, but ectopic thyroid tissue is still possible.

An overactive thyroid results in the excessive production of thyroid hormone. This disorder is called hyperthyroidism. The thyroid gland is located at the front of the neck, and is a master gland ...

Relation between 99m Tc thyroid uptake (A) or nonhormonal iodine levels (B) and changes in serum thyrotropin (TSH) compared with the initial levels after iodine restriction. a/b, TSH after iodine ...

A 70-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes underwent an uncomplicated total thyroidectomy in March for removal of a biopsy-proven papillary thyroid carcinoma in the left thyroid lobe.

Real-time identification of thyroid and parathyroid glands simultaneously and separately using near-infrared fluorophores in rat and pig models.