A rare disorder: tumoral calcinosis and cirrhosis

Tumoral calcinosis is a rare disease characterised by deposition of calcified mass near the joints. The pathogenesis of this disease is not exactly defined. A disorder of calcium and inorganic phosphate metabolism may play a role. Here, we report a case of 19-year-old girl who had both cryptogenic c...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ case reports 2011-08, Vol.2011 (aug17 1), p.bcr0620103082-bcr0620103082
Hauptverfasser:	Allameh, Seyyed Farshad, Anari, Akram Ghadiri, Gharabaghi, Mehrnaz Asadi, Nakhjavani, Manouchehr
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abdomen Biopsy Calcification Calcinosis - diagnosis Calcinosis - surgery Chelating Agents - therapeutic use Diagnosis, Differential Diagnostic Imaging Disease Female Hospitals Humans Hyperphosphatemia - drug therapy Hypotheses Joint Diseases - diagnosis Joint Diseases - surgery Laboratories Liver cirrhosis Liver Cirrhosis - diagnosis Metabolism Middle-East Pancytopenia - diagnosis Pathogenesis Patients Phosphatase Polyamines - therapeutic use Postoperative period Rare Disease Sarcoidosis Sevelamer Surgery Ultrasonic imaging Urine Varicose veins Vitamin D Vitamin deficiency Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	Tumoral calcinosis is a rare disease characterised by deposition of calcified mass near the joints. The pathogenesis of this disease is not exactly defined. A disorder of calcium and inorganic phosphate metabolism may play a role. Here, we report a case of 19-year-old girl who had both cryptogenic cirrhosis and idiopathic tumoral calcinosis. To our knowledge, there is few report of such concurrence.
ISSN:	1757-790X 1757-790X
DOI:	10.1136/bcr.06.2010.3082