Acute airway compromise from a hemorrhagic posterior cervical- mediastinal mass: Rare presentation of a parathyroid adenoma

Bryan A Whitson, Rebekah Heckmann, Carlos Manivel, Amy Anne Lassig, Jonathan D’Cunha

Abstract


Massive hemorrhage secondary to rupture of a parathyroid adenoma is exceedingly rare. We present the case of a hemorrhagic parathyroid adenoma resulting in airway compromise treated with surgical decompression.

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