ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Endocrine diseases
Disorders of the thyroid gland or thyroid hormones system
5A04 — Hypersecretion of calcitonin
ICD-11 5A04 — Hypersecretion of calcitonin
This is the process of elaborating, releasing, and oozing a 32-amino acid linear polypeptide hormone that is produced in humans primarily by the parafollicular cells (also known as C-cells) of the thyroid, and in many other animals in the ultimobranchial body.
It includes 2 items.
- Hypersecretion of thyrocalcitonin
- C-cell hyperplasia of thyroid
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.