Ultrasound facilitates minimally invasive parathyroidectomy in patients lacking definitive localization from preoperative sestamibi scan

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 785-791

  Davis, Matthew L ^a   Quayle, Frank J ^b   Middleton, William D ^b   Acosta, Lori M ^a   Hix Hernandez, Staci J ^a   Snyder, Samuel K ^a   Moley, Jeffrey F ^b   Brunt, L Michael ^b   Lairmore, Terry C ^a  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy; Sestamibi scanning; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI;

EID: 36048939012     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.07.020     Document Type: Article

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