[Role of scanography in the diagnosis of parathyroid adenomas. Apropos of 27 cases].

Scanner imagine pre-operatively in 27 patients with hyperparathyroidism provided assessment of the sensitivity (92 p.cent) and diagnostic precision (92.5 p.cent) of this investigational method. The need for a strict methodology and the advantages gained by high resolution and angioscanning programmes are emphasized. After analyzing the results, a review of the published literature enables the advantages and the limits of the scanner X to be defined, and a strategy for exploration of parathyroid adenomas to be proposed.