Many individuals who need their thyroid or parathyroid glands removed are potential candidates for scarless thyroid surgery. Ideal candidates for this type of scarless thyroid surgery may have the ...

The authors conclude that besides being convenient and available at a lower price than radionuclide imaging, ultrasonography is a reliable tool to detect and localize parathyroid adenomas in the ...

THERE have been a few cases recorded in which infants born to mothers with parathyroid adenoma have shown tetany early in life. The first observation of this was made by Friderichsen, 1 ...

The parathyroid glands are two pairs of small oval-shaped glands located in the front and the base of the neck, adjacent to the two lobes of the thyroid gland. They secrete parathyroid hormone ...

FNA is typically performed using 22 to 25 gauge needles and 10 or 20 ml syringes that may, or may not be attached ... a parathyroid cyst, whereas yellow fluid is more typical of a cyst of thyroid ...