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Case Reports
. 2020 Oct-Dec;26(4):548-550.
doi: 10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_220_19. Epub 2020 Nov 19.

Hypercalcemia of Malignancy: An Incidental Finding in Carcinoma Cervix

Sweety Gupta  1 , Ajas Ibrahim  1 , Sagar Nilkanthrao Raut  1 , Debanjan Sikdar  1 , Nidhi Sharma  1 , Shreeya Pabi  1 , Rachit Ahuja  1 , Deepa Joseph  1 , Manoj Gupta  1
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Hypercalcemia of Malignancy: An Incidental Finding in Carcinoma Cervix

Sweety Gupta et al. Indian J Palliat Care. 2020 Oct-Dec.

Abstract

Hypercalcemia occurs in 30% of patients of cancer at either as apart of paraneoplastic process or due to bone metastases. It is an uncommon finding in gynecological cancers. Most common in ovarian cancers and till date very few cancer cervix with hypercalcemia have been reported. We, hereby, report patient of carcinoma cervix who was found to have incidental hypercalcemia without any associated clinical symptoms.

Keywords: Calcium; carcinoma cervix; humoral; hypercalcemia.

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Axial section of contrast extravasation computed tomography abdomen and pelvis showing heterogeneous mass lesion in cervix with effaced fat planes with the bladder and rectum
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99 technetium-99m bone scan showing no evidence of skeletal metastases
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