A patient with primary hyperparathyroidism was examined with positron emission tomography using [18F]-2-fluorodeoxyglucose. The radioactive tracer accumulated in a cervical mass that proved to be a parathyroid adenoma resulting in the correct preoperative localization of the parathyroid tumor.
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