...Toshitsugu Oka; Kenzo Onoe; Kiyomi Matsumiya; Minato Takaha; Toshiaki Yoshioka; Takuo Koide; Takao Sonoda; Michio Kimura; Masami Sakurai Fifteen adenomatous parathyroid glands obtained from 15 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism were examined both pathologically and immuno-histochemically...

... was given intramuscularly to 6 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism, 6 patients with urolithiasis, and 5 control subjects. Serum calcium significantly increased 2 h after ACTH injection in primary hyperparathyroidism. However in the other two groups, an increase of serum calcium was not observed...

...Sverker Ljunghall; Göran Åkerström Urate metabolism was studied in 40 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT), 20 of them had a history of renal stones. Preoperatively they had, compared to controls, a reduction of the clearance of urate and a rise of the serum urate concentrations...

...Maria Luisa Brandi; Alberto Falchetti Primary hyperparathyroidism, a genetically heterogeneous disease, usually occurs as a sporadic disorder due to the presence of parathyroid adenoma/s, hyperplasia or, rarely, carcinoma. In the last decades familial forms of primary hyperparathyroidism have been...