THE use of radioactive iodine in the treatment of thyroid carcinoma is predicated upon the assumption that malignant thyroid tissue mimics, to some degree at least, the iodine-concentrating faculty of normal thyroid tissue.The first studies *, 9 of malignant thyroid tumors suggested that thyroid carcinoma tissue, in general, concentrated very little radioactive iodine.This was determined by placing a histological section of the thyroid in contact with the emulsion surface of a lantern-slide plate i n the attempt to record,
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