Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The most common causes of hypercalcemia are primary hyperparathyroidism and malignancy. Malignancy-related hypercalcemia occurs in approximately 20% - 30% of all cancer patients during their clinical course and mainly affects patients with solid tumors such as breast carcinoma.Case Report : 57 yrs old woman was referred for hypercalcemia and osteoporosis. Laboratory: calcium 2.8 mmol/l (normal range 2.15 - 2.55) calculated ionized calcium 1...

Introduction: Parathyromatosis is a rare cause of recurrent hyperparathyroidism defined as small nodules of hyperfunctioning parathyroid tissue in the soft tissues of the neck or mediastinum. The most common cause is probably the implantation of parathyroid cells into surrounding tissue during surgery and the risk of parathyromatosis increases with repeated parathyroid surgery. There is an overlap in the histologic features in parathyromatosis, atypical adenoma, and parathyroi...