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New Normal Ranges for the Radioiodine Uptake Study

San Joaquin General Hospital, Stockton, California

Correspondence: For reprints contact: J. David Bernard, San Joaquin General Hospital, P.O. Box 1020, Stockton, Calif. 95201.

ABSTRACT

Normal iodine uptake ranges in our laboratory have definitely changed over the past 15–20 years, at least partly due to variations in iodine exposure of the population. In addition, basic and common-sense concepts of intralaboratory quality control make it mandatory that all laboratories establish normal ranges for the iodine uptake study. A prospective study in Stockton, California, revealed normal ranges vastly different from those used previously. They are very comparable to modern normal ranges recently established in Birmingham, Alabama. Normal ranges must be reestablished as necessary with the passage of time and changes of equipment. Normal subjects must be used for this purpose, not patients suspected of having thyroid or other serious disease.

FOOTNOTES

Presented in Los Angeles at the First Annual Meeting of the Northern and Southern Chapters of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, September 19–20, 1969.