[Recklinhausen brown tumor of the cervical spine disclosing primary hyperparathyroidism]

N Graziani; A Donnet; M Antipoff; P Gaborit; Hassoun; F Grisoli

[Recklinhausen brown tumor of the cervical spine disclosing primary hyperparathyroidism]

Neurochirurgie. 1991;37(6):394-7.

[Article in French]

Authors

N Graziani¹, A Donnet, M Antipoff, P Gaborit, Hassoun, F Grisoli

Affiliation

¹ Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU Timone, Marseille.

PMID: 1780018

Abstract

The authors report a case of osteitis fibrosa cystica of the cervical spine with spinal cord and root compression. Histological diagnosis was made in the post-surgical phase during which acute renal failure and hypercalcemia developed; a parathyroid nodule was found and subsequently excised.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Cervical Vertebrae*
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Hypercalcemia / complications
Hyperparathyroidism / complications*
Middle Aged
Myelography
Osteitis Fibrosa Cystica / complications*
Osteitis Fibrosa Cystica / pathology
Osteolysis / complications
Spinal Fusion
Spinal Neoplasms / complications*
Spinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Spinal Neoplasms / pathology
Spinal Neoplasms / surgery