Adrenal cortical carcinoma is a rare endocrine tumor for which complete surgical resection
is the only potentially curative treatment. Accurate preoperative evaluation (biochemical and …

Hypothesis Technetium Tc 99m sestamibi scintigraphy, intraoperative gamma probe detection,
and the rapid parathyroid hormone assay have been used to permit a directed operation …

Background: It is believed that patients who undergo thyroidectomy for Graves' disease are
more likely to experience postoperative hypocalcemia than patients undergoing total …

BACKGROUND: Previous investigators have reported the incidence of thyroid nodules in
patients with primary hyperparathyroidism; others have noted the incidence of primary …

Background: The management of patients with thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA) specimens
that are neither benign nor malignant still remains problematic. Efforts to improve their …

BACKGROUND: Patients with primary hyperparathyroidism who undergo minimally invasive
parathyroidectomy (MIP) may have postoperative symptoms of hypocalcemia or secondary …

The precise diagnosis of follicular thyroid lesions is frequently debated because of the
subjective nature of capsular invasion as well as both the histological and cytological …

Purpose: Although fine-needle aspiration biopsy is the most useful diagnostic tool in evaluating
a thyroid nodule, preoperative diagnosis of thyroid nodules is frequently imprecise, with …

Background. Size has been considered to be the single best predictor of malignancy in
adrenal neoplasms that have been identified incidentally. However, small adrenal cortical …

Background Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy (MIP) has become a well-accepted
treatment for selected patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). However, few studies …