Erschienen in:
01.09.2009 | Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery
Positional statement of the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons (ESES) on modern techniques in pHPT surgery
verfasst von:
Anders O. J. Bergenfelz, Per Hellman, Barney Harrison, Antonio Sitges-Serra, Henning Dralle
Erschienen in:
Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
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Ausgabe 5/2009
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Excerpt
The second most frequent indication for intervention by an endocrine surgeon is primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT), classically a bilateral neck exploration. It is more than 25 years since Sten Tibblin from Lund, Sweden proposed a unilateral surgical approach to pHPT, and in the last decade, even more changes—preoperative localisation procedures, intraoperative PTH assay, local anaesthesia, minimally invasive and short-stay surgery—have become available to ‘facilitate’ the treatment of the disease. …