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- Title
Feasibility of portable gamma camera imaging in intraoperative radioguided parathyroid adenoma identification.
- Authors
Koc, Zehra Pinar; Kara, Pelin Ozcan; Dag, Ahmet; Berkesoglu, Mustafa
- Abstract
Novel surgical applications include radioguided procedures in parathyroidectomy operations. In order to investigate the feasibility of usage of the portable gamma camera in parathyroidectomy operations; intraoperative radioguided parathyroidectomy operation was performed in three hyperparathyroidism patients with inconclusive preoperative parathyroid scintigraphy results. Intraoperative portable gamma camera did not reveal additional benefit over gamma probe in the patients with preoperative inconclusive parathyroid scintigraphy results that have parathyroid adenomas in close proximity to the thyroid lobes. However this modality might be evaluated by future studies regarding the ability to replace frozen section analysis or quick PTH analysis in the verification of the excision of the parathyroid adenoma.
- Subjects
SCINTILLATION cameras; PARATHYROID gland cancer; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL excision; POSITRON emission tomography
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2018, Vol 26, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
1681-2824
- Publication type
Article