Granulomatous Disease of Unusual Sites Causing Hypercalcemia: two Case Reports

ABSTRACT: Objective: Hypercalcemia with suppressed parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels is mostly due to granulomatous disease (GD) or neoplastic disease. In GD, autonomous activity of extra-renal 1α-hydroxylase enzyme is usually the underlying cause. We describe a pair of cases where hypercalcemia resu...

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Main Authors: Stamatios Zouras, MSc, MD, MRCP, Ashutosh Surya, MRCP, Hussam Abusahmin, MSc, MRCP, Mohamed Hassan, MSc, MD, MRCP, Emyr Humphreys, BSc, MRCP, Pramod Nagaraja, MD, MRCP, Joanna Hurley, MD, MRCP, Elizabeth Slowinska, MD, FRCP, Gautam Das, MD, MRCP (Diabetes and Endocrinology), FRCP, FACE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:AACE Clinical Case Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2376060520305460