Unusual behaviour of an unusual tumour: calcitriol-induced hypercalcaemia in metastatic oesophageal neuroendocrine carcinoma

Hypercalcaemia in malignancy is most commonly caused by paraneoplastic secretion of parathyroid hormone-related protein or osteolytic metastases. Very rarely (<1% of cases), the mechanism behind increased serum calcium is increased production of calcitriol (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D) and even rarer...

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Published in:BMJ Case Rep
Main Authors: Ionescu, Filip, Petrescu, Ioana, Marin, Maria
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Unusual Association of Diseases/Symptoms
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449358/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32843450
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-235209
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