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case_images: X-ray showing the right subtrochanteric fracture.
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case_images: Sri Lankan woman was referred from the orthopedics unit to the endocrinology unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka, for further evaluation of recurrent femur fractures. She first experienced a right sided subtrochanteric fracture following a low trauma injury at the age of 20 years (Figure 1), for which she underwent internal fixation.
case_images: CT neck showing the left side parathyroid mass.
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case_images: Three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) of neck was carried out for localization, which revealed a 2.5 x 2.9 cm well-defined rounded mass with avid contrast enhancement posteroinferior to the left lobe of the thyroid gland, suggestive of a parathyroid mass (Figure 2).
case_images: Macroscopic appearance of the excised parathyroid mass with hemithyroidectomy.
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