Re: I-131 Thyroid Uptake -Reply

[William McCabe <WMCCABE@tnrcc.state.tx.us>]

>>> carol marcus <csmarcus@ucla.edu> 27 Jan 99  15:07 >>>

>The ordinary thyroid radioiodine uptake in normal adults is 10-25%;
>occasionally it is as low as 5% or as high as 30%, but not often.  

Could you (anybody) quantify that a little more?  (i.e., frequency
distributions)  Does "not often mean" less than 10%, 5%, 1% of the
population?   Is there any data on the shape of the distribution? 

Just curious.

Will McCabe
wmccabe@tnrcc.state.tx.us


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