CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM

Primary hyperparathyroidism--a clinical study.

Fifteen patients with primary hyperparathyroidism were seen over a l4-year period in the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Seven patients presented predominantly with bone disease, 5 with urolithiasis and 3 patients wereasymptomatic. Other complications included acute psychosis, pancreatitis, myopathy and renal tubular acidosis. One patient had multiple endocrine adenomatosis (MEA) T...

Clinicopathological study of primary gastric lymphoma.

OBJECTIVE To present a histopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis of primary gastric lymphomas that was reclassified according to the new World Health Organization classification of lymphoid neoplasms. METHODS We reviewed the morphological and immunohistochemical features of 28 patients with gastric lymphomas, diagnosed in the Department of Pathology at the University Hospital of Tishre...

Immunologic Differentiation of Primary Hyperparathyroidism from Hyperparathyroidism

A B S T R A C T Serum immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (IPTH) was measured by radioimmunoassay in 54 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and in 18 consecutive patients with ectopic hyperparathyroidism due to nonparathyroid cancer without apparent skeletal metastasis. Although serum calcium concentration was higher in the group with ectopic hyperparathyroidism, serum IPTH was lower (rank...

Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Pancreatitis: an Uncommon Cause of Pancreatitis

Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Report on 30 Cases of the Disease

Primary hyperparathyroidism is not nowadays considered a rare disease and according to some reports, its incidence is 1/1000. This disorder can be accompanied with severe complications including renal failure and bone illnesses and this can highly elevate the treatment costs and causes social problems and troubles within families. The descriptive strategy of this study was carried out on 30 pa...