[The surgical treatment of parathyroid hyperfunction; comments on 16 cases]

16 cases of primary (13 cases) or secondary (3 cases) parathyroid hyperfunction are presented. The diagnostic circumstances are described: the tumor were incidentally discovered in patients with skeletal or urinary symptoms and following the artificial dialysis in patients with send failure. The treatment consisted in 12 adenoma excision and 3 subtotal paratyroidectomies (in 3 patients with hyperparathyroidism of renal origin. Associated operations on the thyroid gland (tactical or for removing thyroid nodules) and the operations for urinary lithiasis or skeletal disease were also presented. There was no postoperative morbidity or mortality.