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Usefulness of Ultrasonographic Detective Flow Imaging for Detecting Parathyroid Tumors: A Report of Two Cases
Mami Matsui1, Tomoo Jikuzono1,2, Shoko Kure3
1Department of Endocrine Surgery, Nippon Medical School.
Abstract:
Parathyroid tumors (PTs) are sometimes difficult to diagnose because they are small and have low-velocity blood flow, which can be missed by current imaging modalities. PTs consist of parathyroid adenoma (PA), parathyroid cyst, and parathyroid carcinoma (PC). Detective flow imaging (DFI) is a new imaging technology that displays low-velocity blood flow. Herein, we report two cases in which DFI was useful for diagnosis of PTs. One patient had a PA and a parathyroid cyst in close proximity, and the other had a PC. To our knowledge, this is the first report to demonstrate the usefulness of DFI in the diagnosis of PTs.
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