The thyroid volume in normal persons correlates with the rate of iodine excretion in the urine.
thyroid volume in mL =
= 426.9 * ((24 hour urinary iodine excretion in µg) ^ (-0.735))
Limitation:
• Patients who are iodine deficient may have low urinary iodine excretion (Stanbury 1974).
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Specialty: Endocrinology, Clinical Laboratory
