SPONTANEOUS CERVICAL HEMATOMA - A RARE MANIFESTATION OF PARATHYROID ADENOMA

Abstract

Extracapsular hemorrhage from spontaneous rupture of a hyperplastic parathyroid gland is exceedingly rare. Rupture of an intrathoracic parathyroid adenoma mimicking a dissecting thoracic aortic aneurysm was reported in 2 humans. Hypercalcemic crisis associated with contained hemorrhage within a parathyroid adenoma has been well documented. The 1st reported case of spontaneous rupture and extracapsular hemorrhage of a cervical parathyroid adenoma. Serum Ca levels should be obtained when spontaneous cervical or mediastinal hemorrhage develops without obvious cause.