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Intraoperative localization of parathyroid adenoma using 99Mtechnetium sestamibi
C Burns1, M Oppenheimer, K Wheeler
1Physician's Laboratory, Ltd, Sioux Falls, SD.
South Dakota Journal of Medicine
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
We herein illustrate an unusual but very helpful maneuver in the localization of parathyroid adenomas that have proven difficult to find at initial surgical exploration. This case also illustrates how metabolically active thyroid tumors can interfere with the localization of parathyroid tumors when using the technetium-thallium subtraction scan technique, and a possible way of overcoming such interference.