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Ultrasound image demonstrates a hypoechoic mass, 1.9 x 0.4 x 1 cm, inferior and posterior to the right lobe of the thyroid, consistent an enlarged right inferior parathyroid gland.
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It was seen just deep to the inferior aspect of the right lobe of the thyroid gland (Figure 1).
H&E staining; magnification x40; demonstrates a parathyroid adenoma composed of chief cells with some oxyphil cells in a delicate capillary network.
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Histopathologic examination of the parathyroid gland was consistent with a parathyroid adenoma (Figure 2).