Publications by authors named "Isabel Fernandez Palop"
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- Hemithyroidectomy may affect serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) and calcium levels, prompting a study to analyze these changes after surgery.
- A prospective study of 53 patients showed significant decreases in serum calcium at 6 and 24 hours post-surgery, but levels remained above 4 mg/dl.
- The findings indicate that while calcium levels drop after lobectomy, hypocalcemia is uncommon in this procedure.
Gastric duplication cyst is a very rare congenital anomaly accounting up to 4-9% of all gastrointestinal tract duplications. It is a quite rare anomaly in adults, the majority of cases are diagnosed in the neonatal period. Gastric duplication cysts are usually asymptomatic in the adult.
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