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AN INTERPRETATIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

WALTER M. BOOTHBY, M.D.; AUSTIN C. DAVIS, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1936;58(1):160-184.

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The present paper is limited to a review of the constructive literature which is pertinent to the understanding of the physiologic function of the parathyroid glands, so that patients who have unavoidably suffered injury or destruction of the glands as a result of operation on the thyroid gland may be successfully and satisfactorily treated. The literature on the experimental side is so extensive that only the most important constructive articles can be referred to, and it seems unnecessary to cite more than a few of the early reports, which are of a negative or conflicting nature. Several previous reviews cover the controversial points of these investigations in considerable detail.

The parathyroid glands were first described and named as distinct anatomic entities by Sandström in 1880, although, as he pointed out, both Remak (1851) and Virchow (1864) had previously seen and briefly described them in connection with the thyroid gland.

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Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Section on Clinical Metabolism and the Division of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic.

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