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What is your approach to progressive calvarial hyperostosis found in an elderly adult not caused by Pagets, acromegaly or hypercalcemia?

No evidence for acromegaly or Pagets.
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Endocrinology · Milwaukee Va Medical Center
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Does your patient have meningioma? Is the osteosclerosis generalized or localized? Localized osteosclerosis can arise from tumors (either benign or malignant) that secrete osteogenic proteins. I have had such a patient, with the unresectable meningioma secreting endothelin. Endothelin is also secret...

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