ea0070aep207 | Bone and Calcium | ECE2020
Apicella Matteo
, Bola Stefano
, Volterrani Duccio
, Mazoni Laura
, Frustaci Gianluca
, Materazzi Gabriele
, Marcocci Claudio
, Cetani Filomena
Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a common endocrine disease mainly caused by a single parathyroid adenoma. Although the localization of the parathyroid adenoma is not a surgical criteria for parathyroidectomy, this is known to increase the cure rate of PHPT and reduce the complication rate. Neck ultrasound and MIBI-scintigraphy are the first-line localization techniques to detect parathyroid adenomas, however, they have some limitations including the operator-dependent se...