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Occurrence in a Patient With Breast Carcinoma

Uzi Gafter, MD; Eugen M. Mandel, MD; Lea Har-Zahav, MD; Shalom Weiss, MD

JAMA. 1976;235(18):2004-2005.

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HYPERCALCEMIA due to primary hyperparathyroidism is often associated with acute pancreatitis. On the other hand, hypercalcemia accompanying other conditions is rarely the cause of pancreatitis.^1-5 We report a case of carcinoma of the breast with bone metastases and hypercalcemia associated with acute pancreatitis.

Report of a Case

A 76-year-old woman was admitted to the Department of Medicine because of diffuse abdominal pains, constipation, nausea, and vomiting of one week's duration. Two months prior to admission, she felt a mass in her right breast. Examination by mammography gave indications suspicious of neoplasm and she was referred for further investigation.

The patient had had a hysterectomy 28 years before because of uterine myomatosis, and a cholecystectomy one year later because of cholelithiasis. For the eight years preceding admission to our department she had been treated with methyldopa, 500 mg/day, because of hypertension.

On examination, the patient was found to be in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine "B," Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Medicine "B," Hasharon Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel (Dr Meir Djaldetti).

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