Parathyroid Carcinoma: A Surgeon’s Suspicion

Abstract

Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare clinical entity. Its incidence is less than 1% of all primary hyperparathyroidism. It is a clinical challenge to distinguish between adenoma and carcinoma preoperatively; usually it is a intra operative and histological diagnosis. We present a patient with parathyroid carcinoma evaluated in our clinical setting and its management

Keywords

• parathyroid carcinoma
• hyperparathyroidism
• hypercalcaemia
• adenoma