Week 243: Case 6

1. Presented by Edward McCarthy, M.D. and prepared by Natasha Rekhtman, M.D., Ph.D.

A 60 year-old man fell and broke his hip. There is a history of hypercalcemia and radiographs of his phalanges showed sub-periosteal resorption along the shafts of his phalanges. A bone was examined from the fractured femoral head.

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