Preoperative localization of parathyroid adenomas: Ultrasonography, sestamibi scintigraphy, or both?

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 549-552

  Hajioff, Daniel ^a,b   Iyngkaran, T ^a   Panagamuwa, C ^a   Hill, D ^a   Stearns, M P ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hyperparathyroidism; Localization; Parathyroid adenoma; Sestamibi; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID SCINTISCANNING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI;

EID: 4644220193     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2273.2004.00858.x     Document Type: Article

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