… of the time interval between the diagnostic dose and ablation with the stunning … I pretherapy
scanning was performed on patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC); the patients …

… the diagnostic scan, a decision tree was implemented rather … necessary to best populate the
decision tree used in this study, … Furthermore, more randomized controlled trials are needed …

… , thyroid cancer will be the second leading cancer diagnosis … fact that a pretherapy scan
was not performed. Other imaging … for differentiated thyroid carcinoma using radioactive iodine …

… study showed statistically significant benefits of 131I ‘ablation… RAI scans (PT-RAIS) and
authors had to exclude this patient … specificity of our pre-therapy diagnostic evaluation with 131I …

… done our best to avoid this phenomenon using the lowest possible dose for a fairly sensitive
diagnostic scan and by decreasing the time elapsed … , and administered activity for ablation …

… higher administered activity may negatively impact subsequent RAI-T… hypothesis that biologic
effects of diagnostic 131 I can limit … ablation failure, compared with no pretherapy scanning. …

… sites require treatment (diagnostic scan) and confirm that … concept was performed on thyroid
cancer patients with RAI in … to only decide whether the patient needs RAI ablation or not. The …

… Furthermore, a pre-ablation scan may cause patient … of RAI as the following: RAI remnant
ablation, RAI adjuvant therapy, … indications of diagnostic RAI imaging after remnant ablation or …

… in published studies that included RAI ablation after total … I scan, or at least a high-quality
diagnostic radio-iodine scan to … it would be possible to perform diagnostic pre-ablation 123 I or …

… mL were obtained at a diagnostic scan performed 148–560 days … the groups using rhTSH
and THW as the pretreatment … low ablation success rate in our study, it is likely that a low RAI …