[Is thallium scintigraphy of value in the preoperative localization of pathologic parathyroid glands?]

15 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism were studied by Thallium scintigraphy in order to localize, preoperatively, the parathyroid adenoma(s). Compared with the operative findings, the scintigrams provided correct information in 10 cases and false information in 5 cases. These results are therefore inferior to those previously reported in the literature.