Paraneoplastic Hypocalcemia Developed in Gastric Cancer Accompanied by Osteoblastic Metastasis

Paraneoplastic syndromes are generally defined as clinical disorders associated with malignant diseases, and hypocalcemia associated with cancer is a rare condition. A woman in her 60s was referred to our hospital for the further examination of massive ascites due to carcinoma of unknown primary ori...

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Autores principales: Okazaki, Jun, Muguruma, Naoki, Kitamura, Shinji, Kimura, Tetsuo, Okamoto, Koichi, Miyamoto, Hiroshi, Kishi, Kazuhiro, Bando, Yoshimi, Kondo, Takeshi, Endo, Itsuro, Abe, Masahiro, Takayama, Tetsuji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5498197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28566596
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.56.8545
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Sumario:Paraneoplastic syndromes are generally defined as clinical disorders associated with malignant diseases, and hypocalcemia associated with cancer is a rare condition. A woman in her 60s was referred to our hospital for the further examination of massive ascites due to carcinoma of unknown primary origin. She complained of numbness around her lips, and marked hypocalcemia of 5.0 mg/dL was noted. After two courses of chemotherapy, computed tomography showed a decrease in the ascites, and her serum calcium level increased. Although hypocalcemia is a very rare condition in patients with gastric cancer, serum calcium values should be evaluated when neurological symptoms are observed.

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