The provider performs a study to image the parathyroid glands, taking sets of planar images after administering very small amounts of two different radiopharmaceuticals or radioactive tracers. The provider takes the results and compares them to each other, along with SPECT images to help identify abnormal tissue and CT images for precise preoperative localization of the abnormal findings. In some cases she also performs a subtraction study.
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