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Mediastinal hemorrhage after treatment of thyrotoxicosis using radioiodine
D A Piers1, S Janssen, H R Oosten
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|August 1, 1988
Abstract:
A patient presented with a massive mediastinal hemorrhage due to a ruptured thyroid artery, occurring eight weeks after treatment with radioiodine for thyrotoxicosis. Suspicion of a causal relation is supported by vascular abnormalities found in the thyroid after treatment with radioiodine.