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Sarcoidosis masquerading as a parathyroid adenoma
Author(s) -
Nabriski Dan,
Bendahan Jose,
Shapiro Menachem S.,
Freund Uri,
Lidor Cobi
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
head and neck
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.012
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1097-0347
pISSN - 1043-3074
DOI - 10.1002/hed.2880140508
Subject(s) - sarcoidosis , medicine , parathyroid adenoma , differential diagnosis , hyperparathyroidism , scintigraphy , primary hyperparathyroidism , radiology , subtraction , parathyroid neoplasm , adenoma , cervical lymph nodes , lymph , thallium , pathology , metastasis , cancer , inorganic chemistry , chemistry , arithmetic , mathematics
Two patients presented with a presumptive diagnosis of hyper‐parathyroidism. Surgically excised “parathyroid glands” were found to be, in fact, large lymph nodes with sarcoid granulomata. In one patient, the preoperative localization of the “parathyroid adenoma” was based on scintigraphy (thallium‐technetium subtraction imaging) and sonography procedures. The differential diagnosis of hypercalcemia, and positive scintigraphy‐sonography studies, must include sarcoidosis in an isolated cervical lymph nodes. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.