Table 4. Mean doses of radioactive iodine ablative therapy.
Author | No of patients |
Mean dose of I-131 per treatment |
P-value | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TT + CND | TT alone | TT + CND | TT alone | |||
Moo et al. 2010 (22) | 45 | 36 | 102.7 mCi | 66.3 mCi | 0.002 | |
Hughes et al. 2010 (38) | 78 | 65 | 150.0 mCi | 30.0 mCi | 0.01 | |
Sywak et al. 2006 (26) | 56 | 391 | 5.2 GBq | 4.8 GBq | 0.2 |
Abbreviations: TT, total thyroidectomy; CND, central neck dissection.