Take, for example, Graves disease, where the surgeon has two simultaneous tasks: namely, to find all thyroid tissue (including accessory thyroid tissue) in the neck, as well as to identify ...

Because certain proteins in your eyes are similar to thyroid tissue, your immune system may attack them, too. Eye problems are more common for people with Graves' disease, but some people with ...

Debates regarding thyroid stunning -- a phenomenon whereby a diagnostic dose of radioiodine decreases uptake of a subsequent therapeutic dose by remnant thyroid tissue or by functioning metastases ...

In a new study published in Stem Cell Reports, Robert Coppes and colleagues from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, used healthy thyroid tissue from patients undergoing surgical removal ...

With the sustained RFA thermal heat, the nodule is degenerated, allowing the degenerated tissue to flow through your body naturally as waste over the course of a few months. Thyroid RFA is a minimally ...

corresponding to a region of normal thyroid tissue identified on ultrasonography and PET–CT. The scan also showed less intense uptake in the lower right lobe and in most of the left lobe ...

The term "radioactive" may sound scary, but it is a safe and effective treatment. RAI is taken by mouth. Since only thyroid tissue takes up iodine in the body, RAI destroys thyroid tissue and thyroid ...