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OWING to the high cost of radioactive iodine, the therapeutic use of this isotope in the treatment of certain cases of malignant disease of the thyroid gland is accompanied by the problem of recovery of the isotope from urine for re-administration. Originally in this Hospital we have used a rather complicated recovery process based upon a method kindly furnished by Baumann (private communication), which is similar to that used in the micro-estimation of iodine1. In brief, this process was as follows.
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Baumann and Metzger, J. Biol. Chem., 121, 231 (1937).
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CRAIG, A., JACKSON, H. Recovery of Radioactive Iodine from Urine. Nature 167, 80–81 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167080a0
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