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Surgical Pathology of the Parathyroid Glands
Development and Anatomy The parathyroid glands develop from the endoderm of pharyngeal pouches III and IV. These are first identifiable at 5 to 6 weeks of fetal development as thickenings of the anterodorsal branchial pouch epithelium (see Chapter 2 ,…