"Decisive presurgical role of MIBI SPECT/CT in identifying within a calcific thyroid nodule the parathyroid responsible for primary hyperparathyroidism"

Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 837-838

  Piga, Mario ^a   Serra, Alessandra ^a   Uccheddu, Alessandro ^a   Letizia Lai, Maria ^b   Faa, Gavino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b University Hospital San Giovanni di Dio   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; LIOTHYRONINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

AGED; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID NODULE; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, PRIMARY; PARATHYROID GLANDS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750453079     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2006.04.009     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Profanter C., Wetscher G.J., Gabriel M., et al. CT-MIBI image fusion: a new preoperative localization technique for primary, recurrent, and persistent hyperparathyroidism. Surgery 135 (2004) 157-162
2. Boi F., Lai M.L., Deias C., et al. The usefulness of 99mTc-SestaMIBI scan in the diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodules with oncocytic cytology. Eur J Endocrinol 149 (2003) 493-498