Hypercalcemic Crisis in A Patient with A Huge Mediastinal Atypical Parathyroid Adenoma

ABSTRACT: Objective: To describe a patient who presented with hypercalcemic crisis and severe hyperparathyroidism who had urgent surgery. She was found to have a huge mediastinal atypical parathyroid adenoma (APA). We discuss our case, the difficulty discriminating an APA from parathyroid cancer, an...

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Main Authors: Jenna L. Sarvaideo, DO, Jennifer Clark, MD, Kathryn E. Coan, MD, Oleksandr Kravtsov, MD, Amanda Jacquart, MS, CGC, Paul Knudson, MD, Diana Maas, MD, Robert D. Blank, MD, PhD, Tracy S. Wang, MD, Joseph L. Shaker, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-05-01
Series:AACE Clinical Case Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2376060520304983