Analysis of risk factors of rapid thyroidal radioiodine-131 turnover in Graves’ disease patients

Abstract Rapid iodine-131(131I) turnover in the thyroid gland is an important feature of Graves’ disease (GD) and also a strong predictor of radioiodine therapy failure. The aim of this study was to explore the predictors of rapid 131I turnover. The clinical data on 2543 patients were retrospectivel...

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Main Authors: Ruiguo Zhang, Jian Tan, Renfei Wang, Guizhi Zhang, Qiang Jia, Zhaowei Meng, Yueqian Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08475-z