Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 49-year-old woman presented with hypercalcemia. She had been experiencing weight loss, polyuria, nocturia, ...
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LOS ANGELES -- Screening with 18 F-fluorocholine PET/CT imaging had the best detection capability for identifying parathyroid adenoma, according to a new study. Among 30 patients with primary ...
October 1, 2009 (Palm Beach, Florida) — Performing both high-frequency ultrasonography and technetium 99m-sestamibi scintigraphy (MIBI) scans preoperatively in patients with primary ...
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 ...
Most cases of primary hyperparathyroidism result from a single adenoma. Surgical treatment with minimally invasive parathyroidectomy (MIP), therefore, demands accurate preoperative localization of the ...
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) have been working together to improve the quality of diagnostic ultrasound and ...
The book provides the reader essential information on how to 1) distinguish between normal and abnormal thyroid sonograms, 2) differentiate low suspicion for malignancy thyroid nodules from ...
Thyroid nodules are lumps that can develop on the thyroid gland. They may be solid and look dark on an ultrasound scan. Most are benign, but there is a low risk of thyroid cancer. The thyroid is a ...
A minority are aggressive cancer that requires treatment, leaving physicians and patients with a problem — which nodules need to be biopsied for malignancy tests, which nodules show a small risk and ...