Effectiveness of surgeon interpretation of technetium Tc 99m sestamibi scans in localizing parathyroid adenomas

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 953-957

  Anderson, Scott R ^a   Vaughn, Andrew ^a   Karakla, Daniel ^a   Wadsworth, J Trad ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGEON; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 52249122878     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.134.9.953     Document Type: Article

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