Treatment of Graves’ Disease With a Combination of Low Iodine Diet and Potassium Iodide Plus Radioactive Iodine Treatment
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Clinical experience with radioactive iodine in the treatment of childhood and adolescent Graves' disease
BACKGROUND/AIMS Treatments for Graves' disease (GD) in children and adolescents include oral antithyroid drugs (ATDs), near total thyroidectomy, and radioactive iodine (RAI). ATDs remain the preferred choice in this age group, but because persistent remission occurs in 30% of cases, RAI is becoming a common option for definitive therapy. METHODS We performed a review of 65 medical records of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Endocrine Society
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2472-1972
DOI: 10.1210/jendso/bvab048.1982