[Diagnosis and treatment of visceral form of hyperparathyroidism]

Under observation were 131 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism, 22 of them (16.8%) suffering its visceral form. Seventeen patients aged from 31 to 60 years. The duration of the disease from the onset of initial signs till establishment of the final diagnosis was from 3 to 21 years. In two-thirds of patients this period lasted from 4 to 7 years. The clinical picture of the disease is described. All patients were subjected to surgical therapy--adenomas were removed in 18 patients, hyperplastic bodies --in 3, parathyroid cancer--in 1. No lethal issues were observed. The follow-up terms were from 1 to 7 years.