Radioguided Techniques for Parathyroid Surgery
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Guidelines for radioguided parathyroid surgery.
OBJECTIVE To confirm or refute the notion that only parathyroid adenomas have radioactivity higher than 20% of background. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of a prospective patient data set. SETTING Tertiary care referral center. PATIENTS Forty-six patients (9 men and 37 women; mean +/- SD age, 53.7 +/- 12.1 years) underwent thyroid and parathyroid surgery between December 2005 and December ...
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1Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy; 2Division of Surgery, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California; 3Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Department, Regional Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy; 4Institute of Endocrine Surgery, University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy; and 5Institute of General Surgery, University of Padua Medical S...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Journal of Surgery
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1015-9584
DOI: 10.1016/s1015-9584(09)60266-9