How is parathyroid hyperplasia different from a parathyroid tumor? I had a parathyroid operation for primary hyperparathyroidism and was told that I had hyperplasia. Am I going to have the same benefit from surgery as someone with a tumor?
Parathyroid hyperplasia is a form of hyperparathyroidism in which all four glands are overactive. In the most common form of primary hyperparathyroidism, a patient will have one or two parathyroid adenomas, benign tumors that grow from the parathyroid glands. But some patients have hyperplasia, which is not caused by parathyroid tumors. It is simply an enlargement and overactivity of all of the...