THE URINARY EXCRETION OF RADIOACTIVE IODINE AS AN AID IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF HYPERTHYROIDISM
Authors: J W McARTHUR, R W RAWSON
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1948)

Article1 August 1948THE URINARY EXCRETION OF RADIOACTIVE IODINE AS AN AID IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF HYPERTHYROIDISMJANET W. MCARTHUR, M.D., RULON W. RAWSON, M.D., REX G. FLUHARTY, J. H. MEANS, M.D., F.A.C.P.JANET W. MCARTHUR, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, RULON W. RAWSON, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, REX G. FLUHARTYSearch for more papers by this author, J. H. MEANS, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-29-2-229 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThyrotoxicosis, in its classical form, is one of the most readily recognizable of all the diseases in medicine. In atypical form, however, hyperthyroidism may present formidable diagnostic difficulties. A growing number of laboratory aids have been devised to reduce the number of undiagnosed borderline cases, characterized by nervousness combined with a persistently elevated metabolic rate, which plague every thyroid clinic.Among these auxiliary diagnostic technics is the so-called "iodine tolerance test," designed to appraise the functional activity of the thyroid gland by measurement of its capacity to take up iodine. Experimental precedent for this test derives from the classic perfusion...Bibliography1. MARINEFEISS DHO: The absorption of potassium iodide by perfused thyroid glands and some of the factors modifying it, Jr. Pharmacol. and Exper. Therap., 1915, vii, 557-576. Google Scholar2. MARINEROGOFF DJM: The absorption of potassium iodide by the thyroid gland in vivo, following its intravenous injection in constant amounts, Jr. Pharmacol. and Exper. Therap., 1916, viii, 439-444. Google Scholar3. 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CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Cambridge, Massachusetts*Received for publication August 18, 1947.From the Thyroid Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Radioactivity Center of the Department of Physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.†Henry P. Walcott Fellow.Aided by grants-in-aid from the Committee on Growth, American Cancer Society, Parke Davis & Company, the H. N. C. Gift Fund, Harvard University, and an anonymous donor. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byMcArthur, Janet W.JodAn Appraisal of the Diagnostic Significance of the Radioactive Iodine Excretion Test and the Protein-Bound Iodine in the Serum in an Endemic Goitre Area1Therapie der Schilddrüse mit RadiojodTHE PRESENT STATUS OF THE DIAGNOSIS OF HYPERTHYROIDISMROBERT E. 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