Initial experience of intraoperative identification of parathyroid glands with elastic scattering spectroscopy

BACKGROUND: Postoperative hypoparathyroidism due to damage to the parathyroid glands during a thyroidectomy is a well-known surgical complication. The current gold standard intraoperative method for identifying parathyroid glands is surgical judgment; other methods are limited in both their sensiti...

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Main Author: Gillis, Justin Lee
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15076