October 1, 2009 (Palm Beach, Florida) — Performing both high-frequency ultrasonography and technetium 99m-sestamibi scintigraphy (MIBI) scans preoperatively in patients with primary ...

Abnormally enlarged parathyroid glands can be unexpectedly detected during surgery for an unrelated condition and occur without preoperative symptoms of primary hyperparathyroidism. Detection of such ...

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The human parathyroid gland, which regulates the level of calcium in the blood, probably evolved from the gills of fish, according to researchers from King's College London. The human parathyroid ...

Overactive parathyroid glands,which control the body's blood calcium levels, can lead to kidney stones, neuropsychiatric disorders and bone abnormalities, particularly among elderly women. Researchers ...

An early laboratory success is taking researchers a step closer to parathyroid gland transplants that could one day prevent a currently untreatable form of bone loss associated with thyroid surgery.

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THE etiology of hypocalcemia is usually not difficult to define. In most cases it is due to one of the following: postoperative, idiopathic or pseudohypoparathyroidism; rickets and osteomalacia; ...

A newly developed handheld probe helped distinguish between thyroid and parathyroid tissues during surgical procedures, according to a diagnostic/prognostic study. Using real-time mass spectroscopy, ...

The human parathyroid gland, which regulates the level of calcium in the blood, probably evolved from the gills of fish, according to researchers from King's College London. Writing in the latest ...