Your parathyroid glands are four tiny glands located at the four corners of your thyroid gland. They are about the size of a pea and produce hormones to regulate the calcium levels in your blood and ...

The parathyroid glands are endocrine organs that secrete the parathyroid hormone (PTH), parathormone, or parathyrin. The parathyroid glands were the last human organ identified in 1880 by Ivar ...

A parathyroid adenoma is a benign tumor on one of your parathyroid glands. These are four very small glands located near or at the back of your thyroid gland. They produce parathyroid hormone (PTH).

DEAR J.M.: The parathyroid glands are four small glands plastered to the back of the thyroid gland in the lower neck. Their job is regulating blood calcium.

Calcium, Bone, and Parathyroid Glands Calcium helps you move muscles, clot blood, and send messages through nerves. It also builds and strengthens bones.

The human parathyroid glands, which regulate the level of calcium in the blood, probably evolved from the gills of fish, say researchers. The gills of ancestral marine creatures were used to regulate ...

Scarless transoral thyroidectomy or transoral vestibular approach (TOVA) allows for the safe and total removal of the thyroid or parathyroid glands with absolutely no external scarring to the neck. Of ...

Here we describe the consequences of irradiation for the endocrine system, particularly the parathyroid glands, in a cohort of 61 “liquidators,” or cleanup workers, who participated in the ...

At the Baylor College of Medicine Endocrine Surgery Clinics at the Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, Drs. Raymon Grogan, James W. Suliburk, Feibi Zheng and their team, specialize in the treatment of tumors ...