Parathyroid carcinomas: can clinical outcomes for parathyroid carcinomas be determined by histologic evaluation alone?
The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Japan Endocrine Pathology Society was held in September 2001. A highlight of the meeting was the participation of Japanese and American endocrine pathologists in a conference to consider the topic "The Determination of Clinical Outcomes for Parathyroid Carcinomas by Histological Evaluation of Invasive Growth." The discussion was centered around three cases of parathyroid carcinomas selected by the coordinator, Dr. Kameyama, and discussed by Drs. Ronald DeLellis, Ricardo Lloyd, and Kennichi Kakudo. In this article, we summarize their diagnoses and comments.
Kameyama
Kaori
K
Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. kameyama@sc.itc.keio.ac.jp
DeLellis
Ronald A
RA
Lloyd
Ricardo V
RV
Kakudo
Kennichi
K
Takami
Hiroshi E
HE
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000473:pathology; D010282:Parathyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012955:Societies, Medical; D016896:Treatment Outcome