Human pathology

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parathyroid carcinoma

Epidemiology

- less than 1 percent of cases of primary hyperparathyroidism

Etiology

- HRPT2 mutations in 66% of apparently sporadic parathyroid carcinomas

See also

- parathyroid adenoma