Studying the result of multi-approach combinations: surgery, radioactive iodine (131-I) and hormones for treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer at Bach Mai hospital. The result showed that: surgery was basic method to remove total thyroid gland, nodes, and metastasis. Radioactive iodine 131-I was supplement therapy to destroy thyroid remnant tissue after surgery. Hormone therapy using T3 or T4 make the patients became in euthroidism status and inhibit TSH secretion. The recurrence and metastases can be detected by serum Tg value determination and 131-I systemic scintiography. Therefore the patient must be followed -up every 6 months in the first two years, and then once a year or every two years
Thyroid Neoplasms ; Therapeutics ; Hormones ; Iodine

700 patients with the hyperthyroidism were examined according to the physical and disease condition. The classfication of age and gender, the evaluation of the clinical, paraclinical features, the thyroid function before and after the radioiodine therapy, the determination of the usual dosage as well as the complication of therapy were implemented.
Hyperthyroidism ; Nuclear Medicine

The authors present the results of clinical recovering and hormonal changing at 98 patients with Basedow’ treated by I-131. The clinical clearly and quickly changed symptoms were putting on body weight, decreasing finger’s tremor, cardiovascular troubles. The volume of goiter and opthalmological signes decreasing more slowly. The seum concentrations of TSH, T3, T4, FT4 were clearly changed related to patients’s status (euthyrosis or hyperthyroidism) after treatment.
Graves Disease ; Thyroid Function Tests ; nuclear medicine

Several thousands of patients with thyroid diseases were diagnosed and treated using the nuclear medicine techniques: Thyroid Radioiodine Uptake, thyroid related hormones determined by RIA or IRMA, thyroid gland scintigraphy. The effect on such test of the populations used iodine-salt was evaluated by authors, also in 330 patients with thyrotoxicosis were treated by I-131 during from 1998-2000 year. The results indicated that this is one of the best therapeutic methods which should be selected. During the last 20 years, very good achievements of nuclear medicine techniques used in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases were collected at nuclear medicine dep. of Bach Mai hospital, but at the present time the imaging equipment Rectilinear Scanner MB 8100 is old and out of date. It must be changed by single photon emission computer tomography system or gamma camera.
Nuclear Medicine ; Thyroid Diseases