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Prolonged remission of hypercalcaemia due to parathyroid carcinoma with pamidronate
P G Newrick1, G D Braatvedt, A J Webb
1Department of Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, UK.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
Parathyroid carcinoma is rare and the associated hypercalcaemia is often resistant to all treatment. A case is described in which prolonged control of hypercalcaemia has been achieved by infrequent infusions of pamidronate despite continuing hypersecretion of parathyroid hormone.