Humoral hypercalcemia of benignancy secondary to parathyroid hormone-related protein secreting uterine leiomyoma

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 335, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 407-408

  Dagdelen, Selcuk ^a   Kalan, Isilay ^a   Gurlek, Alper ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hypercalcemia; Leiomyoma; Parathyroid hormone related protein

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATORVASTATIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCIUM; LISINOPRIL; METFORMIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMORAL HYPERCALCEMIA OF BENIGNANCY; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYDIPSIA; POLYURIA; PROTEIN SECRETION; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; UTERUS MYOMA; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SECRETION; UTERUS CANCER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 45549088369     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3181520125     Document Type: Article

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