TRANSPLANTATION OF HOMOLOGOUS THYROID AND PARATHYROID GLANDS

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Abstract
Three patients who received homologous transplants of thyroid and parathyroid glands utilizing anastomoses between the host and the donor''s vascular pedicles, no longer have signs or symptoms of hypoparathyroid tetany. In addition, one patient is free of pre-existing hypothyroidism. The other two patients, although not taking thyroid extract and being reasonably free from symptoms of hypothyroidism, do not have evidence of thyroid cell activity in the transplant at this time. Presumptive clinical evidence indicates that parathyroid cell function is present in these three patients and is due to persistence of homologous gland tissue which was transplanted 1 1/2, 2 1/2 and 5 years previously.

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