Relationship between parathyroid gland scintigraphy and its histopathology, oxyphil cell content and volume: a retrospective study.

Abstract

Our findings suggest that a positive scintigraphy result depends on parathyroid histopathology and gland volume and does not depend on the presence of oxyphil cells. Prolonged 99mTc-retention is not related to the parathyroid gland histopathology and the presence of oxyphil cells but to the gland volume.