A 20-yr-old black woman presented in 1969 with headache, amenorrhea, hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropism, hypogonadism, and hypercalcemia due to a chromophobe adenoma. She received 5000 rads to the sella. One year later she was found to have hyperparathyroidism due to parathyroid adenoma and three
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