Open AccessOvarian carcinoma producing parathyroid hormone-related protein causing hypercalcemia and metastatic calcification detected on 18 F-FDG PET-CT
Author(s) -
Krishan Kant Agarwal,
Sellam Karunanithi,
Sandeep Jain,
Rakesh Kumar
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.121973
Subject(s) - medicine , calcification , parathyroid hormone , carcinoma , parathyroid carcinoma , ovarian carcinoma , pathology , nuclear medicine , calcium , cancer , ovarian cancer
Hypercalcemia is associated with gynecologic malignant diseases, and cases involving various organs such as the uterus, ovaries, vulva, and vagina. This may be due to elevated levels of parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP). We describe here two cases of ovarian carcinoma simultaneously producing PTHrP that caused hypercalcemia and metastatic calcification detected on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT).