Should I have my localization imaging procedures performed at your facility?

If you have not had a localization procedure already performed we recommend that you wait and have the localization performed at the New York Center for Advanced Parathyroid Surgery. This will decrease the chance of false negative scans.  Moreover, we are able to perform both the parathyroid sestamibi scan and ultrasound together within about 3 hours the first morning you come to visit us.  At your option, you can then proceed to surgery if you have not had anything to eat that morning.  Alternatively, your surgery can be performed the following day.  Because all imaging, laboratory and surgery is performed at the same center, this convenience enables us to work in an efficient and well coordinated manner.