A 49-year-old woman presented with hypercalcemia. She had been experiencing weight loss, polyuria, nocturia, constipation and change in mood for 1 month. She had no personal or family history of ...

Thyroid ultrasound The presence of parathyroid nodules suggests worse bone metabolic profiles in patients with severe secondary hyperparathyroidism. Finding parathyroid nodules on ultrasound supports ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 52-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes and hypertension was found to have hypercalcemia incidentally on ...

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) have been working together to improve the quality of diagnostic ultrasound and ...

LOS ANGELES -- Screening with 18 F-fluorocholine PET/CT imaging had the best detection capability for identifying parathyroid adenoma, according to a new study. Among 30 patients with primary ...

Most cases of primary hyperparathyroidism result from a single adenoma. Surgical treatment with minimally invasive parathyroidectomy (MIP), therefore, demands accurate preoperative localization of the ...

During minimally invasive parathyroidectomy, intraoperative parathyroid hormone monitoring (IPM) can be used to determine whether all hyperfunctioning parathyroid tissue has been excised. Since the ...