Parathyroid Neoplasms

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Parathyroid Adenoma. 
  • Abnormal parathyroid glands: high-resolution MR imaging. 
  • Angiographic ablation of mediastinal parathyroid adenoma. 
  • Association of parathyroid pathology with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma. 
  • Bilateral retropharyngeal parathyroid hyperplasia detected with 4D multidetector row CT. 
  • Carcinoids associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes. 
  • Carcinoma of the parathyroid gland: a 30-year experience. 
  • Circadian rhythms for calcium, inorganic phosphorus, and parathyroid hormone in primary hyperparathyroidism: functional and practical considerations. 
  • Comparative characteristics of primary hyperparathyroidism in pediatric and young adult patients. 
  • Complementary nature of radiotracer parathyroid imaging and intraoperative parathyroid hormone assays in the surgical management of primary hyperparathyroid disease: case report and review. 
  • Concurrent sporadic parathyroid adenoma and carcinoma. 
  • Difficulties of parathyroidectomy after previous thyroidectomy. 
  • Extreme hypercalcemia and electrocardiographic changes. 
  • Function in athymic nude mice of parathyroid heterografts from patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and secondary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Hyperparathyroidism in high-risk surgical patients: evaluation with double-phase technetium-99m sestamibi imaging. 
  • Hypokalemia associated with hyperparathyroidism in pregnancy. 
  • Impact of 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency on perioperative parathyroid hormone kinetics and results in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Impaired calcium sensing distinguishes primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) patients with low bone mineral density. 
  • Initial experience with intraoperative PTH determinations in the surgical management of 130 consecutive cases of primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Leontiasis ossea in secondary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • MR imaging of abnormal parathyroid glands. 
  • MR imaging with surface coils in primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • MRI with surface coils for parathyroid tumors: preliminary investigation. 
  • Osteoporosis followed by primary hyperparathyroidism. A reason for continued vigilance. 
  • Parathyroid histopathology: is it of any value today? 
  • Parathyroid hormone secretion from dispersed human hyperparathyroid cells: increased secretion in cells from hyperplastic glands versus adenomas. 
  • Parathyroid lesions: characterization with dual-phase arterial and venous enhanced CT of the neck. 
  • Pediatric urolithiasis. 
  • Preoperative MR imaging in hyperparathyroidism: results and factors affecting parathyroid detection. 
  • Preoperative endocrine tumor localization utilizing a cost-effective approach. 
  • Prevalence of the polar vessel sign in parathyroid adenomas on the arterial phase of 4D CT. 
  • Primary hyperparathyroidism: a new experimental animal model. 
  • Quantitative analysis of the calcium-sensing receptor messenger RNA in parathyroid adenomas. 
  • Radiobiological considerations in the design of fractionation strategies for intensity-modulated radiation therapy of head and neck cancers. 
  • Regulator of G protein signaling 5 is highly expressed in parathyroid tumors and inhibits signaling by the calcium-sensing receptor. 
  • Severe obesity is associated with symptomatic presentation, higher parathyroid hormone levels, and increased gland weight in primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Successful localization of parathyroid adenomas by magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Surgeon-performed ultrasound is superior to 99Tc-sestamibi scanning to localize parathyroid adenomas in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism: results in 516 patients over 10 years. 
  • The clinical importance of parathyroid atypia: is long-term surveillance necessary? 
  • The complementary roles of fast spin-echo MR imaging and double-phase 99m Tc-sestamibi scintigraphy for localization of hyperfunctioning parathyroid glands. 
  • The role of circulating N-terminal parathyroid hormone fragments in the early postparathyroid adenomectomy period. 
  • The small abnormal parathyroid gland is increasingly common and heralds operative complexity. 
  • Transcriptional profiling reveals distinct classes of parathyroid tumors in PHPT. 
  • Tumor proximity to the recurrent laryngeal nerve in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism undergoing parathyroidectomy. 
  • Tumor-induced osteomalacia masking primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Ultrasound of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. 
  • Whole-exome sequencing studies of parathyroid carcinomas reveal novel PRUNE2 mutations, distinctive mutational spectra related to APOBEC-catalyzed DNA mutagenesis and mutational enrichment in kinases associated with cell migration and invasion. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Professor Emeritus of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Roy Choudhury, Kingshuk, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics