Open AccessHuge brown tumor of the rib in an unlocatable hyperparathyroidism patient with “self-recovered” serum calcium and parathyroid hormone: A case report
Author(s) -
Wenda Wang,
Ning Zhang,
Qiang Qu,
Xinyue He
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v7.i24.4321
Subject(s) - medicine , brown tumor , parathyroid hormone , parathyroid carcinoma , malignancy , hyperparathyroidism , osteitis fibrosa cystica , secondary hyperparathyroidism , primary hyperparathyroidism , surgery , radiology , calcium
The brown tumor is a kind of complication of hyperparathyroidism (HPT). The ultimate therapy usually is the resolution of HPT. We herein report an unlocatable HPT patient who received resection of a huge brown tumor of the rib, and experienced "self-recovery" of serum calcium and parathyroid hormone.