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The accuracy of conventional and three-dimensional thallium-technetium scans in patients with hyperparathyroidism
M K Dudek1, B J Jenkins, A W Goode
1Surgical Unit, Royal London Hospital, UK.
The British Journal of Radiology
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
25 patients with hyperparathyroidism resulting from multiglandular hyperplasia were studied prior to cervical exploration. 43% of abnormal glands were correctly localized by preoperative thallium-technetium scintigraphy. In the 11 patients who underwent three-dimensional scanning, all glands already identified by scintigraphy were also localized in a third plane. In one patient an additional gland, not detected by the conventional scan, was visible.