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Parathyroid adenoma with conflicting parathyroid hormone levels
1Department of Medicine, Englewood Hospital, NJ 07631.
New Jersey Medicine : the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
For discrepant diagnoses in a patient with hypercalcemia, the authors utilized three different parathyroid hormone assays. The new two-site immunoradiometric assay (IRMA) proved to be the most accurate and is recommended in the differential diagnosis of hypercalcemia.