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The use of focused, radioguided parathyroidectomy in geriatric patients with a history of thyroid surgery

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Objective: geriatric patients are often reluctant to undergo parathyroid surgery under general anesthesia because of the major comorbidities. The use of minimally invasive techniques for parathyroid lesions under local anesthesia have been published. Radioguided lesion localization has been known to decrease operative time and reduce the occurrence of positive margins in breast cancer surgery. We hypothesize that it could also be effectively used in focused parathyroid surgery in geriatric patients with in history of thyroid surgery. Materials and methods: our study group consists of geriatric patients with a history of thyroid surgery who underwent focused parathyroid surgery between February 2017 and October 2019. Group-1 included 18 patients who had parathyroidectomy under radioguidance. Group-2, 22 patients who had surgery without it. Patient demographics, operative time, number of frozen sections and length of hospital stay were analyzed. Results: analyzed data were similar between groups. The mean age of the patients was 72.56±12.65 years (range: 65-88). The operative times for group-1 and group-2, were 65.42±7.78 and 74.63±15.98 minutes, respectively (P=0.002). All patients were discharged uneventfully on postoperative day-2. Conclusion: radioguidance parathyroidectomy positively affected the operative time and also decreased the need for additional frozen section.

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Hellenic Society of Nuclear Medicine

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Medicine

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Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

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