Endocrine Abstracts

Background: A minimally invasive approach to primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is equivalent to bilateral exploration when intraoperative parathyroid hormone (iPTH) monitoring is used. We have recently established an iPTH service jointly with Surgical and Clinical Chemistry teams and the aim of the study was to evaluate our initial results with its use.Patients and methods: We collected data from 18 operations for PHPT from October 2015, including one r...