The cost-effectiveness of additional preoperative ultrasonography or sestamibi-SPECT in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and negative findings on sestamibi scans

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-53

  Ruda, James M ^a   Stack Jr , Brendan C ^b   Hollenbeak, Christopher S ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONVALESCENCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NECK DISSECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PROBABILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, PRIMARY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31144458616     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.132.1.46     Document Type: Article

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