Radioactive Iodine Remnant Ablation: The Beta-knife Completion Thyroidectomy

The rationale and objectives for radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation remain perplexing to many. This review addresses the meaning, clinical context and the goals of “ablation”: the RAI treatment after a total thyroidectomy. This article also aims to clarify the definition of a total thyroidectomy and...

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Autores principales: Gulec, Seza, Kuker, Russ
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5283707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28117286
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/2017.26.suppl.03
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description The rationale and objectives for radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation remain perplexing to many. This review addresses the meaning, clinical context and the goals of “ablation”: the RAI treatment after a total thyroidectomy. This article also aims to clarify the definition of a total thyroidectomy and how a thyroid remnant can introduce a confounding factor in the postoperative management of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. The implications of an existing thyroid remnant on RAI diagnostic imaging and serum thyroglobulin levels are discussed. This review provides a rational approach validating the utility of RAI remnant ablation regardless of the patient’s risk stratification.
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spelling pubmed-52837072017-03-27 Radioactive Iodine Remnant Ablation: The Beta-knife Completion Thyroidectomy Gulec, Seza Kuker, Russ Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther Review The rationale and objectives for radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation remain perplexing to many. This review addresses the meaning, clinical context and the goals of “ablation”: the RAI treatment after a total thyroidectomy. This article also aims to clarify the definition of a total thyroidectomy and how a thyroid remnant can introduce a confounding factor in the postoperative management of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. The implications of an existing thyroid remnant on RAI diagnostic imaging and serum thyroglobulin levels are discussed. This review provides a rational approach validating the utility of RAI remnant ablation regardless of the patient’s risk stratification. Galenos Publishing 2017-02 2017-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5283707/ /pubmed/28117286 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/2017.26.suppl.03 Text en © Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy, Published by Galenos Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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