Endocrine Abstracts

Successful minimally invasive parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism depends on accuracy of pre-operative localisation studies. Ultrasound (US) and sestimibi (SM) scanning remain the imaging modalities of choice reserving MRI, CT and PET for patients who have not been cured by previous explorations or for whom other localization techniques are uninformative or discordant. The aim of this study was to review the accuracy of US and SM in the pre-operative localisation...