Labels:box | crt screen | earth | monitor | plant | road | sky | stairs | trade name | tree | web site OCR: THROAT CUL TURE View Glossary THYROID BIOPSY Back Options THYROID PROFILE Print Help THYROID SCAN Scan Quit TREADMILL TEST TRIGI YCERIDE TEST Disease Injury Poisor Thyroid Scan and Radioactive todine Uptake Synptom Jest Drugs Health Diet The thyroid gland 15 butter-fly shaped gland adi jacent to the windpipe in the neck This gland responsible for regulating metabolism Disease can result from the overproduction, or underproduction of thyroid hor rmone Two types of nuclear thyroid tests are performed the RADIDACTIVE IODINE UPTAKE TEST and the THYROID SCAN Both use an injectable [low dose) radioactive tracer. The THYROID SCAN generates an image of the thyroid gland through the use of ped ioactive tracer that 15 injected and absorbed by the thyroid special camera detects the radiation and prod ...
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