Bronchial carcinoma and hypercalcaemia

Bronchial carcinoma and hypercalcaemia.

Hypercalcaemia due to malignant disease, in the absence of bone metastases, is generally regarded as a rare event. It occurred in 16% of a series of cases of bronchial carcinoma coming to necropsy. Hypercalcaemia is a relatively common complication of bronchial carcinoma. The hypercalcaemia is usually accompanied by hypophosphataemia and, in this respect, must be distinguished from the hypercal...

Bronchial carcinoma.

Bronchial Carcinoma

Phosphate treatment of hypercalcaemia due to carcinoma.

Thirteen patients with hypercalcaemia due to carcinoma received inorganic phosphate, orally or intravenously, as palliative treatment for their high serum calcium levels. The serum calcium promptly fell in all patients fully treated, and there was a striking clinical improvement in most patients. The blood urea was usually unchanged or became nearer to normal, while the serum phosphate altered ...

Resistant hypercalcaemia in metastatic parathyroid carcinoma.

1 Department of Medical Oncology, We report a case of inoperable metastatic parathyroid carcinoma involving lifethreatening hypercalcaemia that failed to respond to standard therapy. Our review of available therapeutic modalities showed a paucity of evidence to guide management of patients with these rare tumours. This is the first report of the treatment of malignant hypercalcaemia secondary t...