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Parathyroid hormone without parathyroid glands.
In mammals, PTH is a component in a complex signaling system involving three structurally related ligands and two G protein-coupled receptors, which share significant amino acid sequence homology (Fig. 1). PTH is a peptide hormone comprising 84 amino acids that is made by the parathyroid glands (and to a much smaller extend by the thymus) and acts through the PTH/PTH-related peptide (PTHrP) rec...
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Preoperative imaging studies have an important role in facilitating successful localization of adenomas for surgeons. Their use has increased and parallels the recent growth of minimally invasive parathyroidectomy. Based on findings that scintigraphy is reported to have the highest accuracy for localization of adenomas when compared with anatomic imaging techniques, this article discusses the c...
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Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism and occurs in one percent of cases. Most of the patients at the time of diagnosis are young and the mean age is 40 year-old and occur with equal frequency in both sexes. In most series, serum calcium levels are ≽ 14 mg/dl and in half of them, a palpable cervical mass is evident. Clinical manifestations are maily due to hyperca...
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I t is well known that the extirpation of the parathyroids in mammals is followed by tetanic convulsions. This led to the conclusion that certain tetany-producing toxins are formed in the body, which in normal animals must be either removed or turned into non-toxic substances by the parathyroid glands. The origin of these toxic substances, however, is unknown. Though tetanic convulsions and oth...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1953
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-195310000-00018