Giant Parathyroid Adenoma: A case Report. 2023

Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
Head and Neck Oncosurgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, New Delhi, 110060 India.

Giant parathyroid adenoma (GPA) is a large tumor weighing more than 3.5 g but can weigh as much as 110 g as compared to parathyroid adenomas which usually weigh in the vicinity of 1 g and measure around 1-2 cm. These mainly present with primary hyperparathyroidism. We describe an interesting case and clinical course of a young woman with giant parathyroid adenoma. A 30-year-old Indian female presented with acute pancreatitis and acute kidney injury and was found to have hypercalcemia and hyperparathyroidism on further evaluation. Her physical examination revealed firm, non-tender, and mobile swelling of size 5 × 2 cm on the left side of her neck. USG neck showed a large heterogenous hypoechoic lesion in the left lower pole region of the left thyroid gland measuring 50 × 24 × 29 mm with a volume of 18 ccs. A parathyroid scan was performed using 99Tc Sesta MIBI tracer which was suggestive of a large adenoma in relation to the left lobe of the thyroid gland. She underwent minimally invasive parathyroidectomy with excision of left parathyroid adenoma under general anesthesia. Intraoperative frozen section confirmed the specimen to be parathyroid tissue. Her parathyroid hormone (PTH) level decreased from 1900 pg/ml in the pre-operative level to 242 pg/ml in the immediate postoperative period.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries

Related Publications

Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
January 2023, Cureus,
Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
April 2022, Journal of medical case reports,
Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
January 2009, Annali italiani di chirurgia,
Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
January 1993, Surgery today,
Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
December 2019, Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy,
Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
April 1979, The Journal of urology,
Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
October 2016, Journal of medical case reports,
Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
January 2005, Surgery today,
Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
January 2016, Rozhledy v chirurgii : mesicnik Ceskoslovenske chirurgicke spolecnosti,
Sangeet Kumar Agarwal, and Uday Monga, and Shiv Chadha, and Arushi Gupta, and Vijay Bhushan Dutta
August 2023, Annals of medicine and surgery (2012),
Copied contents to your clipboard!