Background The origin of the reduction in thyroid uptake after a low activity iodine scan, so-
called stunning effect, is still controversial. Two explanations prevail: an individual cell …

TO THE EDITOR: We read with interest the article by Yeung et al.(1) on therapeutic
radioiodine uptake in thyroid remnants after tracer dosimetry. The authors reported …

Thyroid stunning is usually defined as decreased uptake or trapping of radioiodine 131I by
normal thyroid tissue or differentiated thyroid cancer after diagnostic administration of 131I …

Aim To review published in-vivo and in-vitro quantitative dosimetric studies on thyroid
stunning in order to derive novel data applicable in clinical practice. Methods A non-linear …

Thyroid stunning is a radiobiological phenomenon. It may be defined as a temporary
suppression of iodine, trapping function of the thyrocytes and thyroid cancer cells as a result …

Purpose Radioiodine-131 treatment has been a well-established therapy for benign thyroid
diseases for more than 75 years. However, the physiological reasons of the so-called …

In radioiodine therapy for malignant thyroid disease, the pre-therapeutically administered
iodine-131-dose can reduce the potential of thyroid or thyroid carcinoma cells to absorb the …

Twenty-six patients who had undergone recent surgery for differentiated thyroid cancer were
investigated using iodine-131 iodide (120 MBq). Uptake in the thyroid bed was measured at …

With regard to the treatment of differentiated non-medullary thyroid carcinoma, there is
controversy over whether radiation from a diagnostic radioiodine (131 I) application really …

Debates regarding thyroid stunning—a phenomenon whereby a diagnostic dose of
radioiodine decreases uptake of a subsequent therapeutic dose by remnant thyroid tissue or …