Assertion: thyroid goiter | /r/CapableOf | take up iodine
Facets:
value: throughout the thyroid gland
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: During the thyroid scan, the patient will be given a small amount of radioactive iodine in a pill and a special imaging camera is utilized to determine how much iodine is taken up by the thyroid gland and if the thyroid goiter takes up iodine throughout the thyroid gland or whether there is a single "hot" area in the thyroid , relative to the remainder of the thyroid gland (this is called a "hot nodule").