Parathyroid carcinoma is the rarest endocrine cancer with aggressive behaviour. It may be presented as a feature of severe hypercalcemia, musculoskeletal involvement and neck mass. There should high clinical suspicion if there marked very parathyroid hormone levels, palpable mass, recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy due to invasion bone renal symptoms. Thyroid pathology has been seen in 15-70% pati...

A 24-year-old man with primary hyperparathyroidism and osteitis fibrosa cystica developed acute hypocalcaemia. Spontaneous healing of his bone disease was confirmed radiographically and by correction of the serum alkaline phosphatase. Hypercalcaemia associated with a raised serum parathyroid hormone recurred 90 weeks after the initial presentation. During the fourth neck exploration a parathyro...

Hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is an endocrine disorder characterized by high secretion of parathyroid hormone. Brown tumor one the skeletal manifestations HPT. Its overall prevalence low (about 0.1%). Involvement facial bones extremely rare. The mandible involved in 4.5% cases. Primary HPT (PHPT)with vitamin D deficiency worsens clinical course. Parathyroid adenoma detected ectopic places with a ra...

  Introduction: Radio-guided parathyroid surgery along with other minimally invasive surgeries constitutes the main surgical treatment procedures for different kinds of hyperparathyroidism.  In this article we have reported our experience of radio-guided parathyroid surgery using Tc-99m sestamibi. Methods: Ten patients with hyperparathyroidism included in our study. ...