Endocrine Abstracts

Surgical management for parathyroid disease worldwide is on the rise. Hand in hand, parathyroid surgery has evolved from the classical bilateral approach to the more focussed unilateral approach. The failure rate in the best of hands continues to be 3–4% but this figure may rise as Minimally Invasive Surgical techniques are universally adopted.Accurate pathological diagnosis to differentiate parathyroid adenomas from hyperplasia continues to be diff...