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Morbid obesity is a chronic condition that may be challenging to treat. Gastric bypass surgery is used to treat morbid obesity and its complications. Hypocalcemia, a known complication after thyroidectomy, is usually transient and treatable. There is a growing body of literature indicating that patients with previous gastric bypass surgery are at an increased risk for recalcitrant, symptomatic...
Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BP-ONJ) has become an associated side effect of BP therapy and several imaging modalities have been studied to show an ability to detect clinical disease. Because most patients at the authors' university hospital who develop BP-ONJ also undergo concurrent positron emission tomographic (PET) scanning, the authors investigated the utility of PET scans...
Although radioguided surgery has been used for the excision of sentinel nodes in breast cancer and melanoma, sparse literature exists describing its use in thyroid cancer. We report a 69-year-old patient with a previous total thyroidectomy and lymph node dissection for papillary carcinoma who was subsequently found to have recurrent metastatic disease. After a therapeutic dose of radioactive iodine,...
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