Three new tools for parathyroid surgery: expensive and unnecessary?
In our view, the intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay, gamma probe, and endoscopic parathyroidectomy add an entirely unnecessary cost to an operation that can be completed satisfactorily with a preoperative Sestamibi scan and a thorough four-gland exploration.
These data suggest that chronic salicylate administration induces tinnitus via upregulation of p-CREB and NR2B expression, and that GM1 can potentially be used to treat tinnitus.