Respiratory distress caused by radioiodine therapy in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 499-502

  Kinuya, Seigo ^a   Yokoyama, Kunihiko ^b   Michigishi, Takatoshi ^b   Tonami, Norihisa ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

131I; Complication; Neck edema; Respiratory distress; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THYROID CANCER;

AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG; LUNG INJURY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749619823     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 09147187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02987260     Document Type: Article

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