Life-threatening hypercalcemia from a hepatocellular carcinoma secreting intact parathyroid hormone: Localization by sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 302-306

  Mahoney, Eric J ^a   Monchik, John M ^a   Donatini, Gianluca ^a   De Lellis, Ronald ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; HORMONE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; PARATHYROID GLAND; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCINTISCANNING; SECRETION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FATAL OUTCOME; HORMONES, ECTOPIC; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RECURRENCE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33748058840     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.12.3.302     Document Type: Article

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