Parathyroid & Calcium Metabolism Disorders — Topic Test
10 questions · exam mode (answers revealed at the end). 18 min suggested.
A 55-year-old woman is found to have hypercalcaemia and a parathyroid adenoma. Over years she develops band keratopathy and metastatic calcification in the gastric mucosa and lungs despite no cell injury at those sites. This deposition of calcium in normal tissues is best termed:
APsammomatous calcification
BDystrophic calcification
CHeterotopic ossification
DMetastatic calcification