Atypical primary hyperparathyroidism due to parathyroid lipoadenoma: a case report
| Autor: | Luca Pennacchi, G. Montecamozzo, Piergiorgio Danelli, Luca Carsana, Pietro Zerbi, Al’ona Yakushkina, Francesco Cammarata |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
AcademicSubjects/MED00910 medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Parathyroid hormone Case Report medicine.disease Scintigraphy Preoperative care Nephrectomy jscrep/070 Lesion Lipoadenoma medicine Surgery Kidney stones Radiology medicine.symptom business Primary hyperparathyroidism |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Surgical Case Reports |
| ISSN: | 2042-8812 |
| Popis: | Parathyroid lipoadenoma is a very rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism. Preoperative imaging techniques often fail to detect such lesions, and even during surgery they can be misinterpreted just as fat tissue. A 62-year-old woman clinically monitored for primary hyperparathyroidism, with hypertension and a left nephrectomy for hydrouretheronephrosis caused by recurrent kidney stones. A neck ultrasound showed a nodule consistent with left parathyroid of 9 × 5 mm, which was not confirmed on single-photon-emission computed tomography/computed tomography (CT) scan. On surgery, a voluminous lesion with adipose appearance and texture was removed. Frozen sections and intraoperative parathyroid hormone (PTH) confirmed such lesion to be a parathyroid lipoadenoma. Parathyroid lipoadenomas are difficult to localize preoperatively. Sometimes they can be seen by ultrasound scan as hyperechoich lesion, but scintigraphy and CT often fail to identify them. Only the awareness of such lesions and the use of intraoperative PTH can avoid unnecessary extensive cervical exploration. |
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