Neuromuscular symptoms in elderly patients with hyperparathyroidism: improvement with parathyroid surgery
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 149 (2) , 74-76
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb120508.x
Abstract
In a consecutive series of 100 neck explorations for primary hyperparathyroidism, 42 patients were 60 years of age or older; in this group of elderly patients the surgical cure rate was 100%. These p...This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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