Parathyroid Ultrasound

[Coco209]

Are these glands visible and inspected with a normal Thyroid Ultrasound?  or do you need other imaging to see them?  Thanks.

[softlights]

  HI, This is a great question..My surgeon did an ultrasound...however I think that was mainly to check the Thyroid. He said he could see something on the parathyroids, but then I was sent for the sestabami scan. I luckilly had only one gland affected,, initiallly he thought it might be two.
. I believe the sestabami scan is what most doctors use.. not ultrasound alone.. The labs are how the diagnosis is made. but the scan can help pinpoint exactly which glands are involved..(not always, however). Please read Parathyroid.com,,, if you have not already read it.. It is extremely informative,, and you can skip around it.. you don't have to read it all in one sitting.. It;s like an online encyclopedia of this topic.  All the best.           Softy

[Thypatient]

U/s didn't show anything in my situation, except that my thyroid was no good.  A nuclear scan called a Sestamibi usually gives a better view.  But that too didn't show anything in my particular case.  It was mostly blood work that showed I had a problem with one parathyroid gland.