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, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 38-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of metastatic thyroid cancer. During a routine physical exam 10 ...

The uptake of radioiodine by the thyroid gland is a sensitive indicator of thyroid function. Introduced more than two decades ago as a diagnostic aid, this technic has evolved as an objective, safe ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 46-year-old Asian woman was seen in the endocrine clinic for evaluation of a goiter. She was originally from ...

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 ...

Metastatic thyroid cancers that are refractory to radioiodine (iodine-131) are associated with a poor prognosis. In mouse models of thyroid cancer, selective mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) ...

In Sweden, iodine has been added to table salt (10 mg/kg) since 1936; this amount was increased in 1966 to 50 mg/kg. To investigate a euthyroid Swedish population (n=44, 60–65 years) with its entire ...