Parathyroid sonography: A useful aid to preoperative localization
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Clinical Ultrasound
- Vol. 8 (2), 113-116
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jcu.1870080203
Abstract
Parathyroid sonography was used to identify 19 of 23 glands enlarged to over 5 mm in transverse diameter in 22 patients presenting with hyperparathyroidism, both primary and secondary. The false positive and false negative rates were 5 percent and 6 percent, respectively.Keywords
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