DISTRIBUTION OF SERUM RADIOIODINATED COMPOUNDS IN EUTHYROID AND HYPERTHYROID PATIENTS FOLLOWING HYPOPHYSECTOMY*
- 1 August 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 19 (8) , 953-957
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-19-8-953
Abstract
Hypophysectomy performed in 6 euthyroid patients for the treatment of cancer was followed by a changed pattern of distribution of radioiodinated compounds in the serum (after a tracer dose of I131). Radioactivity was present almost entirely in the iodide fraction, with virtually none in the thyronine fraction. In contrast, hypophysectomy performed in 2 hyperthyroid patients (1 of whom had ophthalmopathy) and 2 euthyroid patients with the ophthalmopathy of Graves′ disease was followed by a normal or hyperthyroid pattern of distribution of the iodinated compounds in the serum.Keywords
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