Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Kalevi Kairemo

Publications

• Case Report
  Thyroid Doses and Skin Contaminations of Radioiodine
  Author(s): Kalevi KairemoKalevi Kairemo
  
  Radioiodine treatment, using iodine I-131, is one of the oldest clinical radionuclide therapy methods, and it is widely spread and currently used in the treatment of both thyreotoxicosis and thyroid cancer. The use of iodine may cause skin contaminations which may be a radiobiologic hazard and diagnostic problem. Reported hazards in the radiopharmaceutical production of I-131 for therapy purposes are rare, but they might cause therapeutic approaches due to radioiodine uptake in the thyroid and destruction of thyroid tissue (mean beta range, 0.8 mm). In this work a skin contamination causing a radioiodine thyroid uptake has been reported, together with thyroid cancer patients of receiving therapeutic doses of I-131 having skin contaminations from exudates. These skin contaminations were quantificated, dose calculations were performed based on serial gamma detect.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9619.1000244

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