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- Title
Early presentation of pseudohypoparathyroidism.
- Authors
Hewitt, M.; Chambers, T. L.
- Abstract
The article presents a case of a child who developed subcutaneous calcification and earned a retrospective diagnosis of pseudohypoparathyroidism. As the child grow, similar subcutaneous lesions appeared on her back, occiput, right wrist, and right external malleolus. An assessment of the parathyroid hormone level through a parathyroid stimulation test was performed and failed to produce a rise in either urinary cyclic AMP or urinary phosphate.
- Subjects
PSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM; CALCIFICATION; ENDOCRINE diseases; DIAGNOSIS; PARATHYROID gland diseases
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1988, Vol 81, Issue 11, p666
- ISSN
0141-0768
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/014107688808101119