A radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) tests the function of your thyroid gland, which helps regulate your metabolism. It works by measuring how much radioactive iodine is absorbed by the thyroid gland, ...

A new study addresses the "holy grail" in thyroid oncology: how to jump-start radioactive iodine treatment when it stops working for patients with thyroid cancer. The investigators report that a ...

Differentiated thyroid carcinomas may lose their capacity to take up iodine as a consequence of oncogene activation through signaling pathways. Loss of differentiation markers may be the result of ...

It is the purpose of this paper to outline a regimen employing ethacrynic acid diuresis in the augmentation of 131 I uptake, and to show that such augmented uptake is retained, and is in excess of ...

Clinical data in all 33 patients with primary hypothyroidism are demonstrated in Table 1. Goiter was not palpable in eight patients. Goiter size was rather small in the remaining 25 patients, with a ...

A 75-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease who is on chronic hemodialysis has a suppressed thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) of 0.1 µU/mL and levels of free thyroxine (T4) and free ...