Clinical Syndromes Due to Disorders of the Parathyroid 



Glands Lewellys F. Barker 



Introduction Historical Notes Symptomatology Tonic Contractions of 

 Muscles Increased Mechanical Excitability of Motor Nerves Increased 

 Electrical Excitability of Motor Nerves Increased Excitability of Per- 

 ipheral Sensory Nerves Increased Excitability of Nerves of Special Sense 

 Autonomic Disturbances Psychoses Tetany and Epilepsy- Tetany 

 and Myotonia Reflexes Sensory Tetany Skin Muscles, Bones and 

 Joints Endocrin Glands Metabolism Etiology and Pathogenesis with 

 Comments upon Its Different Forms Idiopathic In Diseases of the 

 Digestive Tract In Association with Infectious Diseases In Associa- 

 tion with Intoxications In Association with Menstruation, Pregnancy 

 and Lactation After Operations for Goiter Tetany in Children Ex- 

 perimental Production in Human Beings Unitary Conception of Tetany 

 Poisonous Substances in Tetany Site and Mode of Action of the 

 Tetany Poison Pathological Anatomy and Histology Course and Ter- 

 mination Prognosis Prognosis in Childhood After Strumectomy In 

 Idiopathic Tetany and in Infections and Intoxications In Tetany Asso- 

 ciated with Gastro-intestinal Diseases In Maternity Tetany General 

 Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis From Other Conditions in Which 

 Hyperkinetic Phenomena Resembling Those of Tetany May Occur From 

 Other Conditions That May Simulate the Motor Paresis Seen in Tetany 

 From Conditions with Sensory Phenomena Resembling Those of Tetany 

 Prevention Treatment Organotherapy Pharmacotherapy Hydro- 

 therapy and Thermotherapy Electrotherapy Mechanotherapy Clima- 

 totherapy Occupational Therapy - Serotherapy Dietotherapy and 

 Other Measures Surgical Therapy Other than Organ Transplantation 

 Parathyropathies Other than the Hypoparathyroidism of Tetany 

 Osteopathies and Neuropathies of Postulated Parathyropathij? Origin 

 Hyperplasia of Parathyroid Glands in Chronic Renal Disease. 



