%0 Journal Article %T The value of intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay in the surgery of mediastinal ectopic parathyroid adenoma (A case series) %A Boubacar Efared %A Hicham Harmouchi %A Marwane Lakranbi %A Mohamed Smahi %A Mounia Serraj %A Sani M. Aminou %A Yassine Ouadnouni %J Archive of "Annals of Medicine and Surgery". %D 2019 %R 10.1016/j.amsu.2019.06.012 %X Ectopic parathyroid adenoma is a rare entity. Its clinical management is challenging due to varying locations in the mediastinum. The aim of our study is to report our experience about the preoperative localization of the ectopic parathyroid adenoma and to emphasize the major role of the intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay in such circumstances %K Hyperparathyroidism %K Parathyroid adenoma %K Malignant hypercalcemia %K Scintigraphy %K Surgery %K Postoperative hypocalcaemia MRI %K magnetic resonance imaging %K CT %K computed tomography %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6610238/