PHPT is caused by excessive secretion of PTH from at least one parathyroid gland. A benign, solitary adenoma is found in 80% of patients with PHPT. In most of the remaining patients with PHPT ...

There can be many symptoms of a faulty parathyroid, but my main symptom was that I was mean as a snake! I had the one ...

Parathyroid diseases are disorders of parathyroid gland function, resulting in abnormally high (primary hyperparathyroidism) or low (primary hypoparathyroidism) levels of calcium and parathyroid ...

THERE have been a few cases recorded in which infants born to mothers with parathyroid adenoma have shown tetany early in life. The first observation of this was made by Friderichsen, 1 ...

As another example, if your calcium and PTH were both high, that would mean the parathyroid gland is producing too much PTH. This might happen, for example, from an adenoma of the parathyroid gland.

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Scarless transoral thyroidectomy or transoral vestibular approach (TOVA) allows for the safe and total removal of the thyroid or parathyroid glands with absolutely no external scarring to the neck. Of ...

At the Baylor College of Medicine Endocrine Surgery Clinics, Drs. Raymon Grogan, James W. Suliburk, Feibi Zheng and their team, specialize in the treatment of tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid and ...