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Hypercalcaemia and the synthesis of interleukin-1 by an ameloblastoma
D W Macpherson1, C Hopper, S Meghji
1Joint Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Medicine, Eastman Dental Hospital, London.
The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
A case of hypercalcaemia secondary to a long-standing solitary ameloblastoma is presented with evidence to suggest that the raised plasma calcium was the result of the secretion of interleukin-1 and a parathyroid hormone-like substances by the tumour. The aetiology of humoral hypercalcaemia of malignancy is discussed in relation to the role played by these substances.