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False-positive xerostomia following radioactive iodine treatment: case report.

Mandel SJ, Mandel L

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Radioactive iodine (131I), used in the treatment of differentiated thyroid carcinoma, is known to cause both short-term and long-term radiation damage to the salivary glands. The injury appears as glandular swellings and/or decreased salivation with 131I dosage and passage of time playing significant roles. A case report is presented to alert the profession to the existence of patients who have received 131I therapy and who complain shortly thereafter of xerostomia, but following a thorough examination are found to represent a group of false-positives. Emphasis is placed on the diagnostic techniques used in the differential diagnosis.

Published 19 January 2007 in Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod, 103(2): e43-7.
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