The association of parathyroid adenoma and non-medullary carcinoma of the thyroid.
Thyroid carcinoma was discovered in five of 56 (8.9%) patients operated upon for hyperparathyroidism. In only one instance was a mass palpated preoperatively. An additional 26% of the 56 patients had either multinodular goiter or follicular adenomas. It is thus important to biopsy the thyroid nodules which may represent malignancy.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D000236:Adenoma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006961:Hyperparathyroidism / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010282:Parathyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*