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M Ginjaume

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PubMed1987

Lithium as an adjuvant of iodine-131 uptake when treating patients with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

Differences in the I-131 uptake by 14 metastatic lesions from well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma and 12 local remnants of normal thyroid tissue before and after an adjuvant therapy with lithium carbonate, were observed. After the adjuvant treatment and administration of an I-131 tracer dose, a considerable increase of radioiodine uptake in all metastatic lesions was found (P less than 0.001), but only a slight increase was found in 50% of the normal tissue. The response to lithium carbonate by neoplastic tissue seems to be different than that of the normal thyroid tissue, and produces a lengthening of the average I-131 biologic life that could be helpful when treating well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1986

A comparison between four simple methods for measuring glomerular filtration rate using technetium-99m DTPA.

Numerous centers perform glomerular filtration rate (GFR) measurements on patients undergoing renal imaging with Tc-99m DTPA. GFR measurement, however, does involve multiple blood samples taken over a 4-hour period, and this has led to attempts to simplify the technique by reducing the number of blood samples required and hence diminish the time taken to perform the test and the inconvenience to the patient. Four different simplified techniques for measuring GFR that have been reported in the literature are compared with a reference 2 blood sample method. Three of the methods do not require any blood samples but have standard errors of greater than 20 ml/min in adults and greater than 14 ml/min in children. The other method requires one blood sample, and if this is taken at 2 hours postinjection, the standard error is 9 ml/min in adults and 5 ml/min in children. The latter method is suitable for routine use in renography when accuracy is not of paramount importance.

Adult↗