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ea0011p76 | Clinical case reports | ECE2006

Parathyroid carcinoma in a patient with chronic renal failure on long-term dialysis

Diaconescu MR , Glod M , Costea I

Background: Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is a rare endocrine tumour, with difficult intraoperative recognition, histological diagnosis and imprevisible evolution. More unusual are the cases appearing at the patients with end-stage renal disease on maintenance hemodialysis (22 observations in medical literature).Case report: A 46 year-old man which suffered of chronic glomerulonephritis from 13 years, being on hemodialysis from three years, complains of ast...