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Hypercalcemia due to constitutive activity of the parathyroid hormone (PTH)/PTH-related peptide receptor: comparison with primary hyperparathyroidism.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Oct 1996
Parfitt A M, Schipani E, Rao D S, Kupin W, Han Z H, Jüppner H
Abstract excerpt
In Jansen's disease (JD), the hypercalcemia found in about half the cases is the result of a mutant, constitutively overactive, form of the PTH/PTHrP receptor, which in these cases also causes the skeletal dysplasia. The subject of the present report was first seen in 1956 and is still under treatment at the same medical center. We report the clinical course and a detailed study of calcium and bone metabolism...
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