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A 60-year-old man with chronic renal failure and a costal mass: a case report and review of the literature

INTRODUCTION: Brown tumors are a rare focal manifestation of osteitis fibrosa cystica, which results from hyperparathyroidism. Chronic kidney failure may lead to secondary or tertiary hyperparathyroidism and thus to osteitis fibrosa cystica and brown tumors. CASE PRESENTATION: A 60-year-old man with...

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Autores principales: Campuzano-Zuluaga, Germán, Velasco-Pérez, William, Marín-Zuluaga, Juan Ignacio
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830164
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7285