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Radioiodine treatment in pediatric Graves disease and thyroid carcinoma

  • Leilei Yuan and Jigang Yang EMAIL logo

Abstract

Graves’ disease (GD) is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in pediatric patients. Most pediatric thyroid cancer is differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). The two diseases can be treated using different methods, such as antithyroid drug, radioactive iodine (RAI), and surgery for GD and surgery and RAI for DTC. RAI can be used to treat pediatric GD and DTC. In the article, we reviewed the RAI application in pediatric GD and DTC.


Corresponding author: Jigang Yang, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Beijing Friendship Hospital, affiliated with Capital Medical University, RongAn Road 95, XuanWu District, Beijing 100050, China

Received: 2011-8-19
Accepted: 2011-10-15
Published Online: 2011-11-17
Published in Print: 2011-12-01

©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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