Clinical Study
Incidental Parathyroid Disease during Thyroid Surgery: Should We Remove Them?
Table 2
Reported abnormal parathyroid glands discovered incidentally at thyroid surgery.
| | Incidentalomas/thyroid operations | % total thyroid cases | | Postoperative hypocalcaemia |
| | 1993 Hellman et al. [7] | 8/594 | 1.35% | | Unknown | | 1992 Katz and Kong [1] | 36/800 | 4.5% | | 2/36 permanent | | 1996 Carnaille et al. [8] | 26/4697 | 0.6% | | 0/26 | | 1981 Prinz et al. [2] | 8/23 | 34.8% | Irradiated pts | 6/8 temporary | | 2001 Marchesi et al. [5] | 3/1400 | 0.2% | | 1/3 temporary | | 2002 Denizot et al. [9] | 12/739 | 1.6% | 3 had normal histology | Unknown | | 2005 Lokey et al. [6] | 33/738 | 4.5% | | 6/33 temporary | | 2005 Schroff et al. [10] | 5/421 | 1.19% | | 0/5 | | 2005 Whineray Kelly et al. [11] | 1 | Case report | | 1 temporary | | 2008 Abboud et al. [12] | 11/574 | 1.9% | | Unknown |
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