Tanuj Madan¹*, Gunjan Dwivedi², Vikas Sharma³, Gurtej Singh⁴, Richa Ranjan⁵ and Parul Verma⁶

¹Assistant Professor, Department of ENT, Command Hospital-Eastern Command, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
²Professor, Department of ENT, Command Hospital-Eastern Command, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
³Associate Professor, Department of ENT, Command Hospital-Eastern Command, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
⁴Assistant Professor, Medical Specialist and Endocrinologist, Department of Internal Medicine, Command Hospital- Eastern Command, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
⁵Professor, Department of ENT, Command Hospital-Eastern Command, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
⁶Consultant, Department of ENT, 153 General Hospital, Leh, India

*Corresponding Author: Tanuj Madan, Assistant Professor, Department of ENT, Command Hospital-Eastern Command, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Received: March 13, 2025; Published: April 21, 2025

Abstract

Parathyroid adenoma (PA) is a part of spectrum of parathyroid disease which also includes parathyroid hyperplasia and parathyroid carcinoma. More than 80 percent cases of parathyroid disease manifest as PA. Most patients of PA remain asymptomatic and get diagnosed incidentally. The present case series consists of case 1 who had psychiatric manifestations; case 2 who was being investigated for nephrocalcinosis and case 3 who was assessed for the complaint of backache. It is important to appreciate from our case series that all cases were completely staggered in their presentations and got referred to Otolaryngologist from very different specialties. The authors have compared this medical entity to a chameleon encountered in clinical medicine because of its myriad presentations. A high degree of suspicion and good clinical acumen are, therefore, mandatory to clinch the diagnosis. Precise surgical technique ensures achievement of normal health which is also depicted in our case series. The instant case report discusses the symptoms, investigative techniques: biochemical and imaging, surgical procedure and prospective clinical course of 3 cases of PA.

Keywords:Parathormone; Hypercalcemia; Primary Hyperparathyroidism; Parathyroidectomy; Nephrocalcinosis

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Citation

Citation: Tanuj Madan., et al. “A Case Series on Parathyroid Adenoma: A Medical Chameleon".Acta Scientific Otolaryngology 7.5 (2025): 26-31.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2025 Tanuj Madan., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.