The so-called stunning of thyroid tissue

JC Sisson, AM Avram, SA Lawson… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2006 - Soc Nuclear Med
When thyroid tissues exhibited concentrations of therapeutic 131I that appeared to be less
than that predicted by data from the preceding diagnostic 131I, the phenomenon was called …

Is thyroid stunning a real phenomenon or just fiction?

W Brenner - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2002 - Soc Nuclear Med
Thyroid stunning is usually defined as decreased uptake or trapping of radioiodine 131I by
normal thyroid tissue or differentiated thyroid cancer after diagnostic administration of 131I …

Thyroid stunning: fact or fiction?

IR McDougall, A Iagaru - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Stunning of thyroid tissue by diagnostic activities of 131I has been described by some
investigators and refuted by others. The support both for and against stunning has at times …

Impact of 131I diagnostic activities on the biokinetics of thyroid remnants

M Lassmann, M Luster, H Hänscheid… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2004 - Soc Nuclear Med
Recent publications described many discrepant findings about thyroid “stunning” after the
administration of 131I diagnostic activities to patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma …

Thyroid stunning in vivo and in vitro

M Medvedec - Nuclear medicine communications, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Aim To review published in-vivo and in-vitro quantitative dosimetric studies on thyroid
stunning in order to derive novel data applicable in clinical practice. Methods A non-linear …

Thyroid stunning revisited

JM Woolfenden - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2006 - Soc Nuclear Med
In patients with thyroid carcinoma, remnant thyroid tissue or metastases may have lower
131I uptake on posttherapy images than on prior diagnostic images. This observation has …

Does thyroid stunning exist? A model with benign thyroid disease

O Sabri, M Zimny, M Schreckenberger… - European journal of …, 2000 - Springer
With regard to the treatment of differentiated non-medullary thyroid carcinoma, there is
controversy over whether radiation from a diagnostic radioiodine (131 I) application really …

Thyroid stunning after 131I diagnostic whole-body scanning

RM McMenemin, TE Hilditch… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2001 - Soc Nuclear Med
TO THE EDITOR: From their study of patients referred for radioiodine ablation, Cholewinski
et al.(1) concluded that diagnostic whole-body scanning can be performed effectively with a …

[CITATION][C] Thyroid stunning

AJ Coakley - European journal of nuclear medicine, 1998 - Springer
Radio-iodine therapy for thyroid carcinoma has been given for many years but its use
remains surrounded with controversies. Should patients routinely have thyroid remnants …

131I Therapeutic Efficacy Is Not Influenced by Stunning after Diagnostic Whole-Body Scanning1

HQ Dam, SM Kim, HC Lin, CM Intenzo - Radiology, 2004 - pubs.rsna.org
PURPOSE: To determine if stunning can be seen with a 185-MBq (5-mCi) dose of iodine
131 (131I) at diagnostic whole-body scanning and, if stunning is seen, determine if there is …