Endocrine Abstracts

During last few decades primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP) evolved from the disease of ‘bones, moans, stones and groans’ to a disorder that is most commonly asymptomatic and incidentally diagnosed with increasing biochemical screening. At the same time different localization studies of the abnormal parathyroid gland(s) emerged. Because PHP is caused in more than 85% of patients with a single gland adenoma which can be reliably localized preoperatively, there has been ...