Giant parathyroid adenoma: a rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism mimicking a carcinoma

Endokrynol Pol. 2020;71(4):359-360. doi: 10.5603/EP.a2020.0035. Epub 2020 Jun 29.

¹ General and Emergency Surgery Department, Garibaldi Hospital, Catania, Italy. giuseppe_evola@hotmail.it.
² Division of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Garibaldi-Nesima Medical Centre, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
³ Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy.
⁴ Endocrinology, Garibaldi-Nesima Medical Centre, Catania, Italy.
⁵ Surgical Oncology, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy.

Abstract

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Keywords: giant adenoma; hypercalcaemia; parathyroid; pathological bone fracture; primary hyperparathyroidism.