: Re: What's Considered Clean??

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Hi all.

I'm looking at my scan results and none of them include a percentage uptake=

..

Am I blind or do the radiologist in Austin just do things really differentl=

y from

the rest of the world?

There are just descriptors like minimal uptake or significant uptake, etc..=

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dee – 38

rising from hypo land (7/21 TSH – 146)

synthroid (.200mg)

Austin, TX

TT & dx pap thyca 7/02

RAI (29.8mCi) 8/02

6/03 WBS not quite clean

RAI 7/7/03 (100 mCi this time around)

CT scans (chest & neck) planned very soon

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> > Just a couple of quick questions: what is considered a clean scan? The=

> > lowest percentage of uptake possible? Does anyone ever get zero

percent

> > uptake?

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> Dear Gayle, Christy and all -

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> Fortunately, you've got to get up pretty early in the morning to come up =

with

a question that hasn't been asked before around here :-)

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> Here's Dr. answer ...

> " Due to the statistical error in most uptake measurements,

> uptake values between 0.0% and 0.7% are not statistically

> different from each other. At those levels one has to look at

> the scan.

> " One can have a clean scan with a 0.7% uptake or abnormalities

> in the neck with a 0.0% uptake. "

>

> To read more about RAI uptake tests, see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/

Thyca/message/28447

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> NYC