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Thyroid scintigraphy during antithyroid treatment for autonomous nodules as a means of imaging extranodular tissue
1Nuclear Medicine Service, Ospedale Maggiore of Milan, Italy.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
The scintigraphic appearance of the thyroid gland after a course of methimazole treatment was studied in 22 patients with autonomous hot nodules. After 2-3 months of treatment the extranodular tissue was reactivated in almost every patient. This treatment constitutes an endogenous TSH stimulation test and may be used clinically in selected cases.