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Iain McDougall

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  • Papillary cancer in a patient treated with radioiodine for Graves' hyperthyroidism. Case report and a review of the risk.

    Tomlinson C, Nowles KW, McDougall IR. Clin Nucl Med. 1991; 16 (10): 729-31

    A small encapsulated papillary thyroid cancer was found in a patient who had received I-131 therapy for Graves' disease 31 months previously. The relationship of Graves' hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer is discussed, as well as the possible role of I-131 as a cause of the cancer. The published data do not support I-131 as an etiology. The patient is clinically well and cured of both hyperthyroidism and the cancer.

    PubMedID: 1742925

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