Hypercalcemia: An Unusual Manifestation of Uterine Leiomyoma

We present a case of hypercalcemia in a 79-year-old female likely secondary to uterine leiomyoma. To the best of our knowledge, hypercalcemia due to a benign tumor has only been described in five cases. Of these above five cases, uterine leiomyoma was thought to be the cause of hypercalcemia in thre...

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Autores principales: Garcha, Amarinder Singh, Gumaste, Purva, Cherian, Sujith, Khanna, Apurv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3583074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23476667
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/815252
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author Garcha, Amarinder Singh
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description We present a case of hypercalcemia in a 79-year-old female likely secondary to uterine leiomyoma. To the best of our knowledge, hypercalcemia due to a benign tumor has only been described in five cases. Of these above five cases, uterine leiomyoma was thought to be the cause of hypercalcemia in three cases.
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spelling pubmed-35830742013-03-09 Hypercalcemia: An Unusual Manifestation of Uterine Leiomyoma Garcha, Amarinder Singh Gumaste, Purva Cherian, Sujith Khanna, Apurv Case Rep Med Case Report We present a case of hypercalcemia in a 79-year-old female likely secondary to uterine leiomyoma. To the best of our knowledge, hypercalcemia due to a benign tumor has only been described in five cases. Of these above five cases, uterine leiomyoma was thought to be the cause of hypercalcemia in three cases. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3583074/ /pubmed/23476667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/815252 Text en Copyright © 2013 Amarinder Singh Garcha et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Hypercalcemia: An Unusual Manifestation of Uterine Leiomyoma
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/815252
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