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Lacrimal duct obstruction after radioiodine therapy: case report and treatment

Iodotherapy represents the radioactive iodine therapy. The beta radiation emitted by radioactive iodine are particles that will be stored in the thyroid tissue destroying cancer cells that were left after surgery (thyroidectomy). It is important to emphasize a possible deleterious effect of therapy which affects the mucosa of the lacrimal system which results in a process of vascular inflammation and scarring producing disorders hypovascular, hypocellular and hypoxic.

Lacrimal duct obstruction/etiology; Dacryocystitis; Iodine radioisotopes/adverse effects; Case reports


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