Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Primary hyperparathyroidism represents the third most common endocrine pathology. Recently, the morphological classification of underlying parathyroid lesions underwent significant alterations: the former primary parathyroid hyperplasia was reclassified as multiglandular parathyroid disease (MPD), a term that is in line with clonality studies and surgeons’ needs; and the entity of atypical parathyroid tumour was separated from adenoma. Although the diagnostics...