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Postgrad Med J 1987;63:745-750 doi:10.1136/pgmj.63.743.745
  • Research Article

The incidence and causes of hypercalcaemia.

  1. D. M. Dent,
  2. J. L. Miller,
  3. L. Klaff,
  4. J. Barron
  1. Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

      Abstract

      A prospective screen for hypercalcaemia in 58,053 hospital in-patients was conducted over 12 months. The incidence of hypercalcaemia was 0.6%, being transient in 19.2% of patients and sustained in the remainder. The most common causes in the sustained group were malignancy (45%) and primary hyperparathyroidism (16.5%). The incidence of primary hyperparathyroidism was 78/100,000 hospital in-patients, and its discovery was directly attributable to the survey in over half the cases.

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