Case Reports June 01, 2014 June 01, 2014

Lacrimal duct obstruction after radioiodine therapy: case report and treatment

DOI: 10.5935/0034-7280.20140041

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.