Comparison of the effectiveness of surgery and radioactive iodine therapy in Basedow-Graves disease

The effectiveness and complications of surgery and radioactive iodine therapy, which have been two treatment modalities in Basedow-Graves disease were investigated retrospectively by comparing 24 patients who were performed thyroidectomy and 15 patients who received radioactive iodine therapy for Basedow-Graves disease between January 2004 and July 2005. Of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in the surgery group, total thyroidectomy was performed in 11 patients. I131 treatment with a mean dose of 15.67±5.30 mCi (median 15.00) was administered in the radioactive iodine therapy group. The mean period of reaching euthyroid state after surgery was 2.33±0.97 months, whereas it was 4.28±1.54 months in the radioactive iodine therapy group (p