title: [Hypercalcitoninemia in conditions other than medullary cancers of the thyroid].
abstract: Serum calcitonin (CT) assays are the most useful tumoral marker for the diagnosis and follow up of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). Since 1988 the sensitivity and specificity of CT assays have been considerably improved. Normal basal and pentagastrin (Pg) stimulated CT ranges remain to be established and it appears necessary to determine the pathological circumstances which may be responsible for hypercalcitoninemia in addition to MCT. By reviewing literature and data from the "Groupe d'Etude des Tumeurs à Calcitonine": a/we compared basal and Pg stimulated CT values obtained with two commercially available immunometric CT assays and we observed that CT values measured by the CT-EASIA MEDGE-NIX kit were three fold the values obtained by suing the hGH ELSA CIS BIOINDUSTRIE Kit; b/we determined that hypercalcitoninemia may be observed in isolated C Cell Hyperplasia (HCC) surrounding either lymphocytic thyroiditis or follicular thyroid carcinoma loci, in chronic renal failure on maintenance hemodialysis, and in various neuroendocrine tumors. Surprisingly, the hypercalcitoninemia related to HCC has been found in genetically unaffected members (without any identified gene RET mutation) of both a Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2A and isolated familial hereditary MTC.
authors: Service d'Endocrinologie-Maladies Métaboliques, CHU, Angers.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Niccoli
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Conte-Devolx
authors: P J
authors: PJ
authors: Lejeune
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Carayon
authors: J F
authors: JF
authors: Henry
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Roux
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Wion-Barbot
authors: J C
authors: JC
authors: Bigorgne
mesh_terms: D002116:Calcitonin / Q000097:blood*; D018276:Carcinoma, Medullary / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000097:blood; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; D051437:Renal Insufficiency / Q000097:blood; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis
chemical_list: D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; D002116:Calcitonin
vernacular_title: Les hypercalcitoninémies en dehors des cancers médullaires de la thyroïde.