| Literature DB >> 15790694 |
S J Johnson1, E A Sheffield, A M McNicol.
Abstract
The pathological examination of parathyroid glands is an essential component of the evaluation of hyperparathyroidism. Traditionally, this has involved intraoperative frozen sections during bilateral surgical exploration of the neck, to confirm removal of parathyroid tissue. With recent developments in imaging, some diseased glands can be localised preoperatively, enabling removal by minimally invasive, targetted surgery, with or without additional non-histological intraoperative procedures to confirm the removal of all hyperfunctioning parathyroid tissue. This article reviews these developments and describes the ideal approach to reporting parathyroid specimens.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15790694 PMCID: PMC1770637 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2002.002550
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Pathol ISSN: 0021-9746 Impact factor: 3.411