Two-Step Surgical Strategy for Parathyroid Carcinoma: A Single-Center Experience
Filippo Longo, Antonio Sarubbi, Claudia Palladino, Andrea Palermo, Anda Mihaela Naciu, Anna Crescenzi, Chiara Taffon, Gaia Tabacco, Luca Frasca, Pierfilippo Crucitti · 2024
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Description
Filippo Longo and co-authors describe a two-step surgery plan for a rare gland cancer in a 2024 case series. Parathyroid carcinoma grows in one of the small glands that control blood calcium. It looks much like a benign overgrowth, so it is usually found only after the first operation, when tissue tests come back.
Their series covers four men, from their mid-fifties to mid-seventies, all with overactive glands and high calcium. Warning signs were severe calcium levels, very high hormone levels, and a mass seen on scans or felt in surgery. Each man first had the single gland removed. Once cancer was confirmed, each had a second operation to remove half the thyroid and the central neck nodes as a guard. Over two years of follow-up, all kept normal calcium with no sign of return.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Filippo Longo, Antonio Sarubbi, Claudia Palladino, Andrea Palermo, Anda Mihaela Naciu, Anna Crescenzi, Chiara Taffon, Gaia Tabacco, Luca Frasca, Pierfilippo Crucitti |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |