title: Hypercalcemia of malignancy.
abstract: Malignancy-associated hypercalcemia is a common and important clinical problem. Two major pathogenic mechanisms appear to be operative in this disorder: local osteolytic hypercalcemia and humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy. The clinical and biochemical features that distinguish these two processes are reviewed.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*