Functional Parathyroid Adenoma Diagnosed After Stress Fractures

Functional Parathyroid Adenoma Diagnosed After Stress Fractures

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Clinical findings and radiographs may be disleading or indefinite in patients with insufficiency fractures.Herein, we present a patient with low back pain increasing with activity and morning stiffness, which click here initially were thought to be due to a spondyloarthropathy.Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed insufficiency fractures Wooden Dolls in the sacrum and iliac wings bilaterally.Finally, laboratory and imaging findings depicted a parathyroid adenoma causing hyperparathyroidism and the adenoma was removed surgically.