A rare adenosquamous carcinoma of the colon occurred in a 41-year-old patient. Its presentation with hypercalcemia, in the absence of osseous metastases, has not been described previously. The hypercalcemia in this case was due to the elaboration of a parathyroid hormone-like substance by the tumor.
Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas associated with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy (HHM)
β Scribed by Kobayashi, Noritoshi ;Higurashi, Takuma ;Iida, Hiroshi ;Mawatari, Hironori ;Endo, Hiroki ;Nozaki, Yuichi ;Tomimoto, Ayako ;Yoneda, Kyoko ;Akiyama, Tomoyuki ;Fujita, Koji ;Takahashi, Hirokazu ;Yoneda, Masato ;Inamori, Masahiko ;Abe, Yasunobu ;Kirikoshi, Hiroyuki ;Kubota, Kensuke ;Saito, Satoru ;Ueno, Norio ;Nakajima, Atsushi ;Yamanaka, Shoji ;Inayama, Yoshiaki
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 341 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1166
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