Parathyroid gland carcinoma

MONDO:0012004

A very rare, slow-growing, clinically serious endocrine tumor that generally develops in mid-adulthood. PRTC presents as a palpable painless mass in the neck and causes severe hypercalcemia and related symptoms, non-specific gastrointestinal manifestations, as well as renal and bone complications related to primary hyperparathyroidism (nephrolithiasis, impaired renal function, osteoporosis, bone pain, and pathologic fractures, etc.). Some PRTCs are however non-functioning tumors.

Also known as: cancer of parathyroid gland, cancer of the parathyroid gland, malignant neoplasm of parathyroid gland, malignant neoplasm of the parathyroid, malignant tumour of parathyroid gland, parathyroid cancer, parathyroid gland cancer, parathyroid gland neoplasm

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