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We presented a case with persistent PHPT due to lung parathyroid adenoma that was successfully resected with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. A 55-year-old female patient was admitted to our endocrinology clinic with persistent PHPT after four neck explorations over 16 years. The last <jats:sup>99<\/jats:sup>m Tc-MIBI scintigraphy with SPECT showed nothing suggestive of parathyroid adenoma, neither in the neck nor the mediastinum, but a solitary nodule as an incidental finding was reported in the lower lobe of the right lung, which was highly probable for a parathyroid adenoma in a fluorodeoxyglucose PET scan. Pathological examination ruled out parathyromatosis and lung malignancy; despite its location outside the anticipated embryonic pathway, pathology revealed the presence of an ectopic parathyroid adenoma. 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