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Impact of thyroid nodular disease on 99mTc-sestamibi scintigraphy in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism |
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| Authors: | Joaquin Gómez-Ramírez Juan Jose Sancho-Insenser Jose Antonio Pereira Jaime Jimeno Assumpta Munné Antonio Sitges-Serra |
| Affiliation: | 1. Endocrine Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitari del Mar, Barcelona, Spain 4. General Surgery Department, Hospital de La Princesa, C/Diego de León 62, 28006, Madrid, Spain 2. Departament de Ciències Eperimentals i de la Salut, Hospital Universitari del Mar, Barcelona, Spain 3. Department of Pathology, Hospital Universitari del Mar, Barcelona, Spain |
| Abstract: | BackgroundPrimary hyperparathyroidism with coexisting thyroid nodular disease (TND) has been considered a contraindication for selective parathyroidectomy because the low sensitivity of preoperative localization studies, especially 99mTc-sestamibi scanning (MIBI) and ultrasound. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of concomitant TND in the preoperative image studies. |
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