Erschienen in:
29.10.2018 | ASO Author Reflections
ASO Author Reflections: Parathyroid Autofluorescence and Near-Infrared Imaging
verfasst von:
Bora Kahramangil, MD, Eren Berber, MD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Sonderheft 3/2018
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Excerpt
Intraoperative identification of parathyroid glands (PGs) is critical to the performance of thyroid and parathyroid surgical procedures. However, this can be challenging due to the small size and variable location of PGs. A number of intraoperative PG localization techniques have been proposed during the past years, including the use of a handheld gamma probe using technetium-99m and the intravenous injection of various dyes including aminolevulinic acid, methylene blue, and indocyanine green. Despite the initial promising results, none of these techniques achieved widespread acceptance due to their limited success and various side effects.
1 More recently, detection of parathyroid autofluorescence using a handheld camera was proposed for intraoperative identification of PGs.
2 This study investigated how this technology could facilitate the detection of PGs and the concordance of results at different centers. …
