Endocrine Abstracts

Presence of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) in patients with thyroid disease has been previously reported. However, co-existence of PTHPT and papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) has been reported very rarely, mainly in the form of isolated case reports. Since the pathophysiological mechanisms of the two diseases are theoretically quite different, no causal relation between these diseases has been inferred. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of PHTP in individu...