Further Experience with Pancreatitis as a Diagnostic Clue to Hyperparathyroidism

IN 1957 our experience with 2 patients who had A concomitant pancreatitis and hyperparathyroidism led us to postulate that pancreatitis is another diagnostic clue to hyperparathyroidism.1 At approximately the same time Bell, Hines and Doane,2 Plough and Kyle3 and Fredell et al.4 reported cases of patients with pancreatitis who were subsequently discovered to have hyperparathyroidism; they also discussed the possible relation between the two diseases. Since our original report we have encountered 9 additional cases. A total of 51 other cases have come to our attention. Thus, pancreatitis is reasonably established as a complication of hyperparathyroidism. The association of the . . .