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 | | Readily measured blood and urine chemistries may offer some clues to diagnosis. |
 | | In theory, PTH hypersecretion should be reflected by hypophosphatemia, hyperchloremia, hypobicarbonatemia, increased urinary phosphate excretion, and urinary calcium excretion that is relatively low for the filtered load. |
 | | PTH secretion suppressed by hypercalcemia of nonparathyroid etiology should, in theory, reverse these parameters. |
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