Humoral hypercalcemia associated with gastric carcinoma secreting parathyroid hormone: A case report and review of the literature

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 557-562

  Nakajima, Koji ^a   Tamai, Masataka ^a   Okaniwa, Shinji ^a   Nakamura, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Mutsuhiro ^a   Niwa, Tomohiro ^a   Horigome, Naoto ^a   Ito, Nobuo ^a   Suzuki, Satoru ^b   Nishio, Shinichi ^b   Komatsu, Mitsuhisa ^b  

^a Iida Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytosolic fraction; Gastric carcinoma; Humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM); Immunohistochemistry; Parathyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; ELCATONIN; FLUOROPYRIMIDINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN; PREDNISOLONE; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; AGED; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HORMONE RELEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCALCEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA; CYTOSOL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN; STOMACH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84878516923     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ12-0406     Document Type: Article

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