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| Title |
Parathyroid Reimplantation in Forearm Subcutaneous Tissue During Thyroidectomy: A Simple and Effective Way to Avoid Hypoparathyroidism
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| Published in |
World Journal of Surgery, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00268-015-3070-0 |
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| Authors |
Giuseppe Cavallaro, Olga Iorio, Marco Centanni, Natale Porta, Angelo Iossa, Lucilla Gargano, Susanna Del Duca, Angela Gurrado, Mario Testini, Vincenzo Petrozza, Gianfranco Silecchia |
| Abstract |
Parathyroid autotransplantation plays an important role in preventing hypoparathyroidism following thyroidectomy. The preferred reimplantation site is still the sternocleidomastoid muscle, but this approach does not permit to check graft vitality postoperatively. The authors report the first prospective evaluation of normal parathyroid gland reimplantation in forearm subcutaneous tissue (using the same technique proposed during parathyroidectomy for hyperplasia) in case of devascularized or inadvertently removed glands during thyroid surgery. From January 2013 to August 2014, we performed 348 consecutive thyroidectomies for various disease, both benign and malignant. In 25 cases, due to inadvertent parathyroid removal or evidence of insufficient blood supply, we removed and fragmented the gland into 0.5-1 mm slices (one for frozen section) and reimplanted it into two subcutaneous pockets on the non-dominant forearm. After surgery we checked grafted gland function by evaluation of serum parathormone gradient between reimplanted versus non-reimplanted arm (considering significant a ratio of 1.5 or more), at 1 week, 1 and 3 months after surgery. We observed recovery of reimplanted graft function in 48, 88 and 96 % of patients respectively at 1 week, 1 and 3 months after surgery. All patients showed normal parathormone levels in peripheral blood (non-reimplanted arm). In one case we observed post-operative wound hematoma on graft-site. This patient showed no graft functionality in post-operative period (even at 3 months follow-up). Parathyroid gland reimplantation in forearm subcutaneous tissue during thyroid surgery is a safe, easy and effective procedure; furthermore, it allows a good control of graft functionality and would allow an easy grafted gland removal if needed. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 25 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Professor | 5 | 20% |
| Other | 4 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 8% |
| Researcher | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 28% |
| Unknown | 1 | 4% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 68% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 3 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 June 2017.
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#1,264,019
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#137
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#17,660
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#2
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