Intraoperative localization of parathyroid adenoma using 99Mtechnetium sestamibi.
We herein illustrate an unusual but very helpful maneuver in the localization of parathyroid adenomas that have proven difficult to find at initial surgical exploration. This case also illustrates how metabolically active thyroid tumors can interfere with the localization of parathyroid tumors when using the technetium-thallium subtraction scan technique, and a possible way of overcoming such interference.
Burns
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Physician's Laboratory, Ltd, Sioux Falls, SD.
Oppenheimer
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Wheeler
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D000236:Adenoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010282:Parathyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi