ea0070ep70 | Bone and Calcium | ECE2020
Ksela Ursa
, Cokolic Miro
Introduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism is usually caused by parathyroid adenoma or hyperplasia. Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare cause of hyperparathyroidism with a frequency ranged from 0.3 to 2.1%. Features that increase the likelihood of parathyroid carcinoma in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism are larger tumor size, symptomatic disease, marked hypercalcemia, and very high serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentrations. Preoperative localization studies do not re...