R Brooke Jeffrey
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Parathyroid crisis in a 20 year old--an unusual cause of hypercalcaemic crisis.
Postgrad Med J. 2001; (909): 468-70
Since the advent of automated serum analysis, patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) are often asymptomatic at presentation or have mild symptoms attributable to the disease. Parathyroid crisis is a rare and potentially fatal complication of PHPT in which patients develop severe hypercalcaemia with signs and symptoms of multiple organ dysfunction. A case of parathyroid crisis in a 20 year old man who presented with brown tumours and renal stones is described.
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