Iodine 131 ablation of an obstructive lingual thyroid

Iodine 131 ablation of an obstructive lingual thyroid.

A 48-year-old woman undergoing surgery could not be intubated because of an oropharyngeal mass. CT and MRI revealed a 3 cm possible lingual thyroid mass, confirmed by Iodine-123 SPECT/CT. The patient underwent successful Iodine-131 ablation and has done well on thyroid hormone-replacement therapy. This case also demonstrates how modern cross-sectional imaging like SPECT/CT can appropriately be ...

Iodine-131 and Thyroid Function

Erratum to: Adjuvant Radioactive iodine 131 ablation in papillary microcarcinoma of thyroid: Saudi Arabian experience.

Author details Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Radiation Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh 59046, Saudi Arabia. Endocrinology and thyroid Oncology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh 59046, Saudi Arabia. Radiation Oncology, NCI, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Histopathology, Kin...

Prototype imaging protocols for monitoring the efficacy of iodine-131 ablation in differentiated thyroid cancer.

Whole-body and single photon emission tomography (SPET) images during sodium iodide-131 (Na131I) ablation are useful to confirm the efficacy of ablation using 131I imaging. However, there have been no attempts to improve the quality of 131I imaging. We therefore investigated imaging protocols for 131I imaging in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Phantoms containing 131I were used to simulate...

Low and High Radio-Iodine-131 Doses in Postoperative Ablation in Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma

The goals of post-surgical RAI therapy in patients with differentiated DTC are to ablate residual normal thyroid tissue that may facilitate surveillance,) Also the potential tumoricidal effect on residual microscopic RAI-avid disease, and to provide a posttreatment whole-body scan that may reveal undetected local or distant metastases.Although, these goals are important, the ultimate endpoint o...