Publications by authors named "Maurice J H M Pluijmen"
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- A woman had trouble breathing because of blood in the heart sac (hemopericardium).
- Doctors tried different tests and treatments but couldn’t find out why this was happening.
- After more surgery, they finally found out that her condition was caused by a rare cancer called angiosarcoma.
Objective: Most patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) undergo total thyroidectomy followed by routine radioiodide thyroid remnant ablation. Most centres that routinely perform radioiodide ablation prescribe a low-iodide diet (LID) to increase the radioiodide accumulation in thyroid remnants. The efficacy of an LID on thyroid remnant ablation, however, has never been demonstrated convincingly.
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