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Parathyroid carcinoma radiographically mimicking a carotid body tumour
W Ahmad1, A N Kanatas, D A Mitchell
1Oral and Facial Specialties Department, Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, UK.
International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
|March 10, 2010
Abstract:
Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare malignancy and is a cause of primary hyperparathyroidism in less than 1% of cases. The authors present a case in which a lesion, radiologically suggestive of a carotid body tumour, but with the peroperative appearance of a vagal schwannoma had the definitive pathological diagnosis of parathyroid carcinoma. Surgeons should be aware of unexpected malignant lesions involving the parathyroid glands.
