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Imaging of transplanted parathyroid tissue in a patient with recurrent hyperparathyroidism
E J Kilgore1, E L Teigen, R J Cowan
1Department of Radiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1088, USA.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
Parathyroid scintigraphy is useful in detecting residual hyperplastic parathyroid tissue in patients who continue to have hyperthyroidism after "total parathyroidectomy." Typically, only the neck and mediastinum are imaged. The authors report a case in which images of the forearm were helpful in detecting hyperplastic autologous transplanted parathyroid tissue.