Malignancy accounts for most cases of hypercalcemia diagnosed in hospital, with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy being the most common etiology. Osteolytic metastases are the other major mechanism for hypercalcemia of malignancy and may occur in cases of multiple myeloma (MM). We present a case of symptomatic hypercalcemia with delayed diagnosis of the underlying cause due to non-secretory MM.
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