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Hypothesis  Patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and negative preoperative localization imaging have a different outcome than patients with positive imaging.
Design  Prospective single-surgeon case series.
Setting  Referral center.
Patients  Forty-two patients with primary hyperparathyroidism, indications for surgery, and both cervical ultrasonographic results and technetium Tc 99m sestamibi nuclear images that were nonlocalizing over a 5- year span.
Main Outcome Measures  Extent of surgery required to produce cure; operative findings.

Background: Mixed medullary-follicular carcinoma of the thyroid with a pleomorphic pattern is a rare malignant epithelial tumor characterized by clinical and immunohistochemical features of follicular and parafollicular thyroid cells. Different molecular mechanisms for mixed thyroid tumors have been suggested.

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Purpose  Stimulated thyroglobulin (Tg) and 131I total-body scan (TBS) have been the mainstays of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC), but now diagnostic TBS has been
eliminated from some follow-up protocols. Nevertheless, Tg can be negative in the presence of thyroid tissue, and moderately
elevated Tg poses management problems. The purpose of this study was to check how many patients have Tg negative but visible
thyroid tissue and if diagnostic TBS could be clinically useful.

Horm Metab ResDOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1073153AbstractChemokines are a family of small, structurally related molecules that regulate cell trafficking of various types of leukocytes through interactions with their seven-transmembrane, G protein-coupled receptors. Their major function is the recruitment of leukocytes to inflammation sites, but they also play roles in tumor growth, angiogenesis, organ sclerosis, and autoimmunity.