Surgical Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism: State of the Art

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1205-1225

  Lew, John I ^a   Solorzano, Carmen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral neck exploration; Focused parathyroidectomy; Intraoperative parathyroid hormone monitoring; Parathyroid hormone; Preoperative localization; Primary hyperparathyroidism

Indexed keywords

PARATHYROID HORMONE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARATHYROID GLAND; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, PRIMARY; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 70349858260     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2009.06.014     Document Type: Review

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