title: The accuracy of conventional and three-dimensional thallium-technetium scans in patients with hyperparathyroidism resulting from multiglandular hyperplasia.
abstract: 25 patients with hyperparathyroidism resulting from multiglandular hyperplasia were studied prior to cervical exploration. 43% of abnormal glands were correctly localized by preoperative thallium-technetium scintigraphy. In the 11 patients who underwent three-dimensional scanning, all glands already identified by scintigraphy were also localized in a third plane. In one patient an additional gland, not detected by the conventional scan, was visible.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Unit, Royal London Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Dudek
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Goode
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Newell
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Boucher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D006961:Hyperparathyroidism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009929:Organ Size; D010280:Parathyroid Glands / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m