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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2018 Jan;163(1):9–14. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2017.04.038

Table 3.

Parathyroid tumor clonal status and pathology at discovered at surgery

Clonality N Operative Findings @ UE Operative Findings @ BNE

SGD MGD SGD MGD

Monoclonal 43 16 0 24 3
Polyclonal 39 16 1 14 8*
Total 82 32 1 38 11

UE = unilateral exploration; BNE = bilateral neck exploration; SGD = single gland disease; MGD = multiple gland disease

*

P = 0.025 for MGD identified at BNE vs. UE