Two-day thionamide withdrawal prior to radioiodine uptake sufficiently increases uptake and does not exacerbate hyperthyroidism compared to 7-day withdrawal in graves' disease

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 603-607

  Kubota, Sumihisa ^a   Ohye, Hidemi ^a   Yano, Genichiro ^a   Nishihara, Eijun ^a   Kudo, Takumi ^a   Ito, Mitsuru ^a   Fukata, Shuji ^a   Amino, Nobuyuki ^a   Kuma, Kanji ^a   Miyauchi, Akira ^a  

^a KUMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti thyroid drug; Graves' disease; Radioiodine therapy; RAIU

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; IODINE 131; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE; THIONAMIDE; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG UPTAKE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IODINE ISOTOPES; MALE; METHIMAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33750633356     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K06-057     Document Type: Article

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