Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: There has been an increasing trend towards outpatient and short stay surgery in UK in last 20 years. This leads to reduced costs, reduced inpatient waiting lists, increased availability of inpatient beds and has the psychological benefit of avoiding prolonged hospitalisation.We liked to evaluate the feasibility of day case and short stay surgery for parathyroid disease in our district general hospital.Material and method: It was retrospecti...

Introduction: Tc 99m sestamibi scan and ultrasound are been used most frequently than other imaging technique in the pre operative localization of parathyroid gland in primary hyperparathyroidism. We liked to evaluate our hospital experience with the scan in preoperative localization of the glandular disease.Method and material: It was a retrospective audit of 7 years from 2000–2007 of 48 patient who underwent open explorative procedure by single su...