The limited role of bone scanning in the diagnosis of metabolic bone disease might be
considerably improved by accurate quantification of skeletal uptake of the radiopharmaceutical. …

Serum uric acid estimations were performed in 106 healthy pregnant women during early,
middle, and late pregnancy, using an automated colorimetric method. The mean serum uric …

The accuracy and sensitivity of the 99 Tc m -phosphate bone scan and conventional skeletal
radiology have been compared in 372 patients with documented malignant disease and 75 …

METHODS The study group consists of ten patients complain ing of bone and muscle pain
and with histologically proven osteomalacia from various causes (Table 1). In each patient …

This study describes the construction of a model for the computer-assisted diagnoses of non-toxic
goitre. From a study of 53 patients with Hashimoto's disease, 51 with simple goitre and …

The Synacthen test consists of the measurement of plasma corticosteroid concentrations by
a fluorimetric method before (basal) and 30 min after a single intramuscular administration of …

Radioactive iodine has been used to treat over 300,000 thyrotoxic patients since 1946. This
paper reviews the knowledge gained in the past 23 years about the efficacy and safety of …

RESULTS The correlation between the lesion counts ob tamed by the three independent
observers was very good for all studies, the correlation coefficient (r) ranging from 0.84 — 0.96 …

The rise in plasma corticosteroid concentration after the administration of corticotrophin (ACTH)
is an index of the functional reserve of the adrenal cortex (Eik-Nes, Sandberg, Nelson, …

A pilot study (Greig, Smith, Gillespie, Thomson and McGirr, 1969) has shown that thyrotoxicosis
can be rapidly controlled using doses of 125 I in the range 15–50 mCi. The rationale of …