# Nuclide record thyroid-nodule-assessment (indication). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/indications/thyroid-nodule-assessment/>
  a schema:MedicalCondition ;
  nuclide:kind "indication" ;
  schema:identifier "thyroid-nodule-assessment" ;
  schema:name "Functional assessment of thyroid nodules"@en ;
  schema:description "When a lump is found in the thyroid, a scan showing whether it takes up iodine-like tracer more or less than the rest of the gland tells doctors whether it is a low-risk overactive nodule that rarely needs a biopsy, or a quiet 'cold' nodule that does."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/indications/thyroid-nodule-assessment/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://snmmi.org/common/Uploaded%20files/Web/Clinical%20Practice/Procedure%20Standards/2019/EANM%20SNMMI%20Radio%20Iodine%20Uptake%20(RAIU)%20and%20Scintigraphy.pdf>, <https://acsearch.acr.org/docs/3102386/narrative/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8671014/> ;
  nuclide:tag "thyroid", "SPECT", "triage" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/indications/graves-hyperthyroidism/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/tc-99m/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/i-123/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/i-131/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/spect/> ;
  nuclide:drugs <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/radioactive-iodine/> .