Debates regarding thyroid stunning -- a phenomenon ... pretherapy study to be negative for focal iodine uptake and no longer perform a diagnositic pre-131 I therapy scan in the immediate ...

Thyroid disease is often missed in older adults because its symptoms overlap with those of “normal aging.” In this ...

Failure to appreciate this effect on these tests of thyroid function may lead to erroneous diagnoses. In the test of red ... of protein-bound iodine and depress the red-cell uptake of tri ...