title: Transcervical endoscopic-assisted mediastinal parathyroidectomy with intraoperative parathyroid hormone monitoring.
abstract: Ectopic mediastinal parathyroid adenomas are rare lesions that typically necessitate either median sternotomy or thoracotomy. More recently, video-assisted thoracoscopy has been used to excise mediastinal parathyroid adenomas. Herein we describe a novel technique in which we used a minimally invasive transcervical endoscopic-assisted approach to excise an anterior mediastinal parathyroid adenoma in a young man with a history of spontaneous pneumothorax. Intraoperative parathormone monitoring confirmed the excision of all hypersecreting parathyroid tissue, thereby obviating the need for a conventional neck exploration.
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D000293:Adolescent; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D008168:Lung / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone / Q000097:blood*; D010282:Parathyroid Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016105:Parathyroidectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
chemical_list: D010281:Parathyroid Hormone