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Video-assisted mediastinoscopic resection of ectopic parathyroid adenoma
Yojiro Yutaka1, Mitsugu Omasa, Kei Shikuma
1Respiratory Disease Center, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kitano Hospital Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|January 4, 2013
Abstract:
Hyperparathyroidism can induce fatal complications in long-term hemodialysis patients. Approximately 20% of patients with hyperparathyroidism have ectopic mediastinal parathyroid glands, and the locations of 2% require a median sternotomy or thoracotomy. A 68-year-old man with an ectopic parathyroid gland in the thymus, underwent total resection via a video-assisted mediastinoscopic approach, which provides a less invasive surgical approach.
