Hypercalcemia associated with cancer of prostate without bony metastases.
Although hypercalcemia is sometimes found in carcinoma of the prostate with osseous metastases, it is rarely seen as a paraneoplastic manifestation of this neoplasm. We present a patient with such a tumor in whom severe hypercalcemia developed in the absence of detectable osseous metastases.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone / Q000097:blood; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications*
D010281:Parathyroid Hormone