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Mediastinoscopic extirpation of mediastinal ectopic parathyroid gland
1Department of Surgery, Osaka Kosei-Nenkin Hospital, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
We report a case of a 50-year-old man with hyperparathyroidism secondary to chronic renal failure who underwent extirpation of a mediastinal ectopic parathyroid gland by a transcervical approach under mediastinoscopy. This procedure provides an excellent approach to the mediastinal ectopic parathyroid gland, and is less invasive than median sternotomy or thoracotomy.