AN IMPORTANT advance in knowledge of parathyroid hyperfunction is the fact that lesions of the kidney and parathyroid glands are often closely related. MacCallum drew attention to this relationship in 1905 (1) with his report of a tumor of the parathyroid gland associated with chronic renal disease. Since that time many scattered reports have pointed to some relationship between hyperparathyroidism and kidney disease. Mandl’s pioneer work on the surgical treatment of hyperparathyroidism, and his final proof in1925 of the parathyroid etiology of generalised osteitis fibrosa cystica stimulated much interest in hyperparathyroidism (2). It soon became evident that lesions in the skeletal system were not necessarily the most important, and indeed not even the most frequent pathological change associated with hyperparathyroidism. Due to extensive and careful studies by Albright and his associates (3) in the last few years, the frequency and relatively great importance of renal disease has been recognised.
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Winston A. Anderson (1939) studied this question.