Palpable parathyroid adenomas presenting as clinical solitarythyroid nodules and cytologically as follicular thyroid neoplasms

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 36-39

  Weymouth, Michael D ^a,b   Serpell, Jonathan W ^a,b   Chambers, David ^c  

^a FRANKSTON HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Anatpath Laboratories   (Australia)

Author keywords

Incidentaloma; Palpable parathyroid; Parathyroid adenoma; Parathyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CYST; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NECK; PALPATION; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADENOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037283531     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2003.02636.x     Document Type: Article

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