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A 23-year-old girl with hyperparathyroidism was referred for parathyroid scintigraphy in 1986 following a previously failed parathyroidectomy. The patient had raised serum calcium and parathormone. On examination, there was a palpable nodule in the left lobe of the thyroid.

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Siraj, Q.H. (2019). Nuclear Medicine Cases. In: Siraj, Q. (eds) Radionuclide Parathyroid Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17351-7_7

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