| Literature DB >> 16133692 |
Serpil Erdogan1, Sabri Barutca, Yakup Yurekli, Nezih Meydan, Kutsi Koseoglu.
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Diffuse metastatic visceral calcification is rare in breast cancer. We report on a 57-year-old woman with breast cancer and hypercalcemia who had diffuse metastatic visceral calcifications on lungs, myocardium, stomach, and thyroid on a (99m)Tc-methylene diphosphonate bone scan. Visceral calcifications were completely resolved 6 months after successful anticancer and zoledronic acid treatments. Bone scanning offers a useful diagnostic tool for both identifying visceral calcification and assessing the response to therapy in chemosensitive malignities with hypercalcemia such as breast cancer.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16133692 DOI: 10.1007/s00774-005-0617-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bone Miner Metab ISSN: 0914-8779 Impact factor: 2.626