Article Figures & Data
Figures
- FIGURE 1.
Timing of start of vitamin C stimulation for each group. Ingestion of 131I was almost always at 5 pm for all patients. Groups A and B began sucking vitamin C at 6 pm and 10 pm, respectively, on day of 131I ingestion. Groups C and D began sucking vitamin C at 6 am and 6 pm, respectively, on second day of 131I ingestion. Because of nocturnal rest, no patients sucked vitamin C from 2 am to 6 am.
- FIGURE 2.
In 49-y-old woman with differentiated papillary thyroid cancer, salivary time–activity curves after ingestion of 3.7 GBq of 131I for ablating postsurgical thyroid remnant. LP = left parotid; LSG = left submandibular gland; RP = right parotid; RSG = right submandibular gland.
- FIGURE 3.
Box plot of absorbed dose (average of left and right glands) to parotid and submandibular salivary glands in 4 groups. Errors bars are 10th and 90th percentiles, gray box itself is boundary of 25th and 75th percentiles, and solid line indicates median.
Tables
- TABLE 2
Salivary Cumulated Activities in First 24 Hours, Divided by Total Cumulated Activities
Group Salivary gland A B C D P Parotid 0.82 ± 0.07 0.87 ± 0.05 0.85 ± 0.12 0.88 ± 0.10 0.21 Submandibular 0.83 ± 0.09 0.80 ± 0.05 0.96 ± 0.09 0.94 ± 0.08 0.16 Data are mean ± SD.
Group Salivary gland A B C D P Parotid 0.15 ± 0.06 0.14 ± 0.07 0.12 ± 0.08 0.14 ± 0.11 0.32 Submandibular 0.16 ± 0.04 0.14 ± 0.04 0.16 ± 0.07 0.16 ± 0.06 0.24 Data are mean mGy/MBq ± SD.
