Hypercalcemia and carcinoma of the penis

✍ Scribed by Videtic, Gregory M. M.; Ago, C. Tetteh; Winquist, Eric W.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 16 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-1532
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-911x(199712)29:6<576::aid-mpo11>3.0.co;2-4

✦ Synopsis

Hypercalcemia is the most common metabolic disorder associated with malignancies. Squamous cell carcinoma of the penis is a tumor for which this abnormality has rarely been described. This report presents a case of hypercalcemia seen in a patient with advanced penile cancer. A chemotherapy regimen of intravenous cisplatin and fluorouracil caused regression of the primary tumor and normalization of the serum calcium. A literature review supported an association between squamous cell carcinoma of the penis and hypercalcemia.