"Previously, multiglandular parathyroid disease had been classified as primary parathyroid hyperplasia and thus as a cause of 10-15% of primary hyperparathyroidism cases. However, the vast majority of these have been proven to be multiple parathyroid adenomas 1,6. The WHO Classification of endocrine and neuroendocrine tumours (5th edition) now best uses the term parathyroid hyperplasia in the setting of secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism, which, confusingly, may also be multiglandular 1,3,4,6."
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"Previously, multiglandular parathyroid disease had been classified as primary parathyroid hyperplasia and thus as a cause of 10-15% of primary hyperparathyroidism cases. However, the vast majority of these have been proven to be multiple parathyroid adenomas 1,6. The WHO Classification of endocrine and neuroendocrine tumours (5th edition) now best uses the term parathyroid hyperplasia in the setting of secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism, which, confusingly, may also be multiglandular 1,3,4,6."