CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY, cilt.89, sa.4, ss.489-495, 2018 (SCI-Expanded)
IntroductionMinimally invasive surgery is an alternative surgical approach for primary hyperparathyroidism with less surgical trauma and anaesthesia complications. When combined with intraoperative measurement of parathyroid hormone (PTH), cure rates are exceeding 97%. Preoperative intact PTH determination in washout samples is really very useful when parathyroid lesions cannot be easily distinguished from thyroid lesions or sometimes lymph nodes. Herein, we aimed to report our institutional experience about parathyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA) method and suggest a cut-off ratio for this purpose.