Talk:Parathyroid gland

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There is actually significant evidence to show that the tetrapod parathyroid gland is directly homologous to gills in teleost fish. Professor Anthony Graham at King's College London has done lots of work with this.
The bottom line is that we still actually possess gills - they are just buried deep in our neck. If I get chance I will write this up. JoeNorris3K  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.5.5.203 (talk) 01:50, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
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message: Who discovered these glands?
:Yeah, good question. My professor of surgery taught us it was first discovered in a rhinoceros at the London Zoo, and subsequently identified in humans. Sounds like an urban legend... Please let us know when you find out. JFW | T@lk 19:44, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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message: I added neural crest contribution to induction of parathyroid.GetAgrippa 13:02, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
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Your first two external links on parathyroid site are very commercial with lots of good and lots of bad infromation mixed together, pointing to each other as if to confirm their own validity but created by the same person. ultimately they are a commercial venture designed to direct patients to the surgeon who has created these pages. These sites have been well maintianed to ensure that they stay at the top of the search engines but may not be entirely reputable. Perhaps other reference would be better.
The following is also a bit confusing:
A blood calcium 15-30 minutes after the biopsy can help determine if the disease is caused by a single abnormal gland or multiple glands.
A drop in serum calcium suggests a single source, and no drop suggests multiple glands. This, with a non-localizing Sestamibi scan would point toward a neck exploration, rather than a minimally invasive method aimed a single gland disease.
US guided FNA identifies parathyroid glands and distinguishes them from LN or Thyroid nodule but can not tell if gland is hyperfunctioning. If lesion in correct location is larger than normal and is parathyroid it will most likely be the culprit.
Most physicians use drop in PTH (rather than calcium) in the operating room, 5 and 10 minutes following excision of a parathyroid to confirm biochemical correction/cure and to exclude multiple gland disease.
nonlocalizing scans are more common in multiglandular disease but may not preclude minimally invasive appraoch and neck exploration can be done "minimally invasive" as well
Please email if you have any questions. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bkmitchell (talk • contribs) 02:37, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: Why is nothing written about the role in the (cellular) immune system?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.101.80.116 (talk) 06:13, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
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message: Could some knowledgeable and literate person re-write this section?
"Parathyroid surgery is usually performed when there is hyperparathyroidism this conditions cause many diseases related with calcium reabsorption, because the principal function of the parathyroid hormone is to regulate it. Parathyroid surgery could be performed as two different ways the first one is the complete parathyroidectomy and the second one is the auto transplantation of the removed parathyroid glands."
Seems hard to understand. Kortoso (talk) 20:03, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
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message: This paragraph was found directly lifted off a journal article:
Sandström was not aware of Owen’s description, which had been published in a journal with a limited circulation. Sandstrom's report was not well received and the work remained barely noticed for several years. Sandstrom suffered from a hereditary mental illness and unfortunately took his own life aged only 37 years.
I have done my best to remove any close-paraphrasing, but please correct any other instances if found. --LT910001 (talk) 02:57, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
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message: This will probably be the final image I add here, but this one is interesting as it gives some clue of variation:
-- CFCF (talk · contribs · email) 10:19, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
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