Higher body weight and distant metastasis are associated with higher radiation exposure to the household environment from patients with thyroid cancer after radioactive iodine therapy.

There were insufficient data regarding radiation exposure to the household environment from patients with thyroid cancer who received radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy in Asia; we therefore performed the present study at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Keelung, Taiwan.Patients with papillary or follicular thyroid cancer who received 3.7 GBq (100 mCi) RAI were enrolled in this prospective hospital-based study.

Efficacy of vancomycin-releasing biodegradable poly(lactide-co-glycolide) antibiotics beads for treatment of experimental bone infection due to Staphylococcus aureus.

Background: Clinical experience and animal studies have suggested that positron emission tomography (PET) using fluorine-18-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) may be promising for imaging of bone infections. In this study, we aimed to establish the accuracy of (18)F-FDG PET scanning for monitoring the response to poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) vancomycin beads for treatment of bone infection.

Methods: PLGA was mixed with vancomycin and hot-compress molded to form antibiotic beads.