… Amiodarone induced thyrotoxicosis (AIT) presents a diagnostic and treatment challenge. …
despite optimal and prolonged medical therapy. The case was complicated by patient's high-…

… I therapy to completely ablate the thyroid remnants through its β-… ; all the patients had a
definite pathological diagnosis of … -dose radioactive iodine-treated differentiated thyroid cancer. …

… by either radioactive iodine or observation) is effective. … In this Seminar, we describe the
clinical presentation, diagnostic work… A radionuclide thyroid scan should be done only in patients …

… of radioactive iodine (RAI) in differentiated thyroid cancer (… time of diagnosis (1), and
correctly identifying these patients … ablation in low risk differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) …

… scans that have higher sensitivity than diagnostic scans. The ATA guidelines state that ablation
… disease and initial staging by tests such as Tg and whole-body RAI scans.” The objective …

… adjuvant radioactive iodine ablation, resulting in excellent clinical … of the diagnostic scan must
be elevated to or above 30 mU/L, … the cancer cell and thus consists of the pretreatment with …

… Radioactive iodine (RAI) refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC… did not demonstrate IU
on a previous RAI scan, or if ≥1 … RAI by adjusting administered activity based on pretherapy …

… [N] Is there a role for ethanol or radiofrequency ablation in the … RAI scans may be obtained
coincident with the RAIU and … reports that pretreatment with lithium reduces the activity of RAI …

… present in the pretherapy (diagnostic) scan. This phenomenon … is optimal concentration of
131 I in the residual thyroid tissue … as the diagnostic agent, stunning of the ablation activity still …

… patients, radioactive iodine therapy (RAI) is done for ablation … the diagnostic nuclear features
of papillary thyroid carcinoma. … 131I therapy, pretreatment TSH stimulation, and activity to be …