The transplantation of parathyroid glands in dogs

Abstract

Our experiments, begun in the winter of 1906-7, have with interruptions been continued to date. In the course of the work many questions have arisen which still require solution and we find ourselves on the threshold of the investigation.The first attempt of which I know to transplant these organs was made by us in December, 1906. Two parathyroid glands, one from the right and one from the left side of the dog's neck, were successfully implanted into the thyroid lobes from which they were removed.1Leischner2 succeeded in a small percentage of his cases in transplanting praeperitoneally parathyroids in rats. These were autotransplantations, the donor being the donee. Pfeiffer, Hermann and Mayer2 made two successful autotransplantations in puppies.Beidl, commenting on the unsuccessful attempts of Foges, Kreidl and himself to transplant ovaries, testicles and suprarenal glands contrasts these failures with his success in the transplantation of the parathyroid glands. He states that a year prior to his report3...