A parathyroid adenoma is a benign tumor on one of your parathyroid glands. These are four very small glands located near or at the back of your thyroid gland. They produce parathyroid hormone (PTH).

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 111, No. 8 (February 25, 2014), pp. 3092-3097 (6 pages) Parathyroid adenomas (PAs) causing primary ...

We have successfully applied the radioimmunoassay for parathyroid hormone (PTH) to the localization of parathyroid adenomas by measurements of hormone concentration in multiple blood samples obtained ...

Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare malignancy, representing 0.005% of all cancers and 0.5%-1% of all parathyroid disorders. Parathyroid carcinoma occurs equally in males and females, as opposed to ...

Background: A 30-year-old woman with suspected multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) was referred to our center in 2001 with primary hyperparathyroidism caused by a multiglandular parathyroid ...

Parathyroidectomy can be difficult, with poor outcomes if abnormal parathyroid tissue is not fully resected or if critical neck structures, such as the recurrent laryngeal nerves, are injured during ...