The preoperative localisation of small parathyroid adenomas improves when adding Tc-99m-Sestamibi SPECT to multiphase contrast-enhanced CT.

Figure 4 demonstrates that by adding a native CT phase to the [A] or [V] based image sets, a highly significant increase in PTA localisation specificity is achieved.

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This is of clinical importance since earlier biochemical diagnosis together with a widening indication for surgery has resulted in a clear trend towards surgical removal of adenomas with increasingly lower weights.

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