Cost-effectiveness of preoperative sestamibi scan for primary hyperparathyroidism is dependent solely upon the surgeon's choice of operative procedure

DW Denham, MD James Norman - Journal of the American College of …, 1998 - Elsevier
Background: In 1991, a National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel stated that
preoperative localization for primary hyperparathyroidism is not cost effective. Since then …

Prospective evaluation of delayed technetium-99m sestamibi SPECT scintigraphy for preoperative localization of primary hyperparathyroidism

AC Civelek, E Ozalp, P Donovan, R Udelsman - Surgery, 2002 - Elsevier
Background. Delayed technetium-99m sestamibi single photon emission computed
tomography (SPECT) scans were prospectively analyzed in a large series of patients with …

Radionuclide scanning in parathyroid diseases

F Pattou, D Huglo, C Proye - British Journal of Surgery, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Background New radionuclide agents and scanning procedures have markedly improved
preoperative parathyroid gland localization. The aim of this review was to evaluate the …

Technetium 99m-MIBI-SPECT: a highly sensitive diagnostic tool for localization of parathyroid adenomas

D Moka, E Voth, M Dietlein, A Larena-Avellaneda… - Surgery, 2000 - Elsevier
Background: The aim of this study was to assess the value of technetium 99m-MIBI
scintigraphy using the single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) technique for …

Comparison and histopathological correlation of three parathyroid imaging methods in a population with a high prevalence of concomitant thyroid diseases

A Staudenherz, C Abela, B Niederle, E Steiner… - European journal of …, 1997 - Springer
The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the diagnostic utility of a technetium-99m
sestamibi dual-phase protocol enhanced by single-photon emission tomography (SPET) …

Localization of ectopic parathyroid glands using technetium-99m sestamibi imaging: comparison with magnetic resonance and computed tomographic imaging

M Ishibashi, H Nishida, Y Hiromatsu, K Kojima… - European journal of …, 1997 - Springer
The aim of the study was to compare the accuracy of technetium-99m sestamibi imaging for
localization of ectopic parathyroid glands in patients with hyperparathyroidism with that of …

Preoperative parathyroid localization with sestamibi

A Malhotra, CE Silver, V Deshpande… - The American journal of …, 1996 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Results of noninvasive preoperative parathyroid localization with
technetium99m-labeled sestamibi are reported in a series of 51 patients. PATIENTS AND …

Accuracy of early‐phase versus dual‐phase single‐photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography in the localization of Parathyroid disease

R Mandal, A Muthukrishnan, RL Ferris… - The …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives/Hypothesis Preoperative localization for parathyroid disease has improved in
recent years with the advent of dual‐phase 99mTc‐sestamibi single‐photon emission …

The ectopic parathyroid adenoma: a cost justification for routine preoperative localization with technetium Tc 99m sestamibi scan

RA Sofferman, MH Nathan - Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & …, 1998 - jamanetwork.com
Objectives To evaluate the cumulative costs of failure to identify the ectopic parathyroid
adenoma when exploration without preoperative localization is performed and to compare …

The spectrum of positive scan patterns in parathyroid scintigraphy

A Siegel, M Mancuso, M Seltzer - Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Parathyroid scintigraphy provides the clinician treating primary hyperparathyroidism with
valuable information regarding the presence and location of parathyroid adenomas. In dual …