Surgeon-performed ultrasonography as an adjunct to minimally invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy in 100 consecutive patients with primary hyperparathyroidism

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-32

  Livingston, Charles D ^a   Victor, Brant ^a   Askew Jr , Robert ^a   Abikhalid, John ^a   Meynig, Jeff ^a   Lindsey, Mark ^a   Jones Jr , Lamar ^a  

^a Seton Medical Center Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID SCINTISCANNING; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ADENOMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID TUMOR; TIME;

ADENOMA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, PRIMARY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 40649125073     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.14.1.28     Document Type: Article

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