Video-assisted mediastinoscopy (VAM) for surgical resection of ectopic parathyroid adenoma

BACKGROUND: Ectopic mediastinal parathyroid adenomas or hyperplasia account for up to 25% of primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT). Two percent of them are not accessible by standard cervical surgical approaches. Surgical resection has traditionally been performed via median sternotomy or thoracotomy an...

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Autores principales: Tcherveniakov, Peter, Menon, Ashvini, Milton, Richard, Papagiannopoulos, Kostas, Lansdown, Mark, Thorpe, James AC
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2146999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17937802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-2-41

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