Unusual presentation in a case of primary hyperparathyroidism

This report describes a case of classic severe primary hyperparathyroidism (PH) with clinical presentation that is very infrequent nowadays, which was osteitis fibrosa cystica. As bone scintigraphy demonstrated multiple areas of increasing uptake associated with hypercalcemia, a thorough investigation was conducted to exclude the neoplasms which most frequently are responsible for bone secondarisms. A fludeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/CT demonstrated diffuse and multiple foci of increased FDG uptake and a focal uptake at the left thyroid region. Parathyroid function was studied, revealing unexpectedly high parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. Further tests confirmed the diagnosis of PH and localized a parathyroid adenoma in the lower left side.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Journal of Research in Medical Sciences

• Publication date

  2011-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  PMID 22279485PMCID 3263086
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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