Hyperparathyroidism in a Patient With Parathyroid Carcinoma
- 1 September 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 120 (3) , 349-352
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1967.00300030091018
Abstract
THE RARITY of hyperparathyroidism in patients with parathyroid carcinoma and the unusually prolonged course of the disease in a patient originally reported as a case of benign parathyroid adenoma 1 prompted this report. Report of a Case A 58-year-old male Negro porter had a giant cell tumor of the jaw removed in 1951. In 1958, he was admitted to the Bronx Municipal Hospital because of severe anorexia, 9.1-kg (20-1b) weight loss, and an increasingly large neck mass. Persistent hypercalcemia (to 16.7 mg/100 cc), low serum inorganic phosphorus (2.4 mg/100 cc), and increased alkaline phosphatase (8.1 Bodansky units) were noted. An en-bloc removal of a parathyroid tumor adherent to the right strap muscles and the right lobe of the thyroid was done. The pathologic diagnosis was parathyroid carcinoma, and the case was reported a second time.2 In 1965, the patient entered the Hospital for Joint Diseases with the chief complaintThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Calcium Intoxication Due to Primary HyperparathyroidismAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1964