Surgery of the Parathyroid Gland

From the time of Sir Richard Owen’s first description in 1850 of the parathyroid glands, the clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of parathyroid disorders have changed dramatically over the past 150 years. Advances in diagnosing, imaging, and improvements in surgical techniques have made parathyroid surgery safe and hardly with any morbidity. In many institutions, minimally invasive parathyroid surgery under local anesthesia has become a daycare procedure.