Back before the days of enlightenment in surgery, the parathyroid glands from thyroidectomies were re-implanted into the forearm. They'd get smooshed and attached to a superficial muscle.
Our most interesting case today was a woman whose parathyroids are working overtime and needed out. Her transplanted glands were in her forearm and palpable from the surface. Trying to find them reminded me of those Chickadee pages where you have to find a list of objects in weird places like bunnies in a mailbox. We had to hunt to find which blobs were glands not fat or muscle.
Is it weird that it was amazing fun?
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