Items for "Plummers´ disease"

Decrease of 99mTc-uptake in autonomous thyroid tissue in Germany since the 1970s. Clinical implications for radioiodine therapy

AIM: The clinical relevance of thyroidal autonomy, i.e. the risk of a patient to become hyperthyroid after exposure to iodine, can be estimated by measurement of the thyroidal 99mTc uptake under suppression of TSH (TcTUs)...

Keywords: TcTUs, benigne Schilddrüsenerkrankung, Autonomie, Radioiodtherapie