Subcutaneous calcification of the lower legs in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 791-793

  Yamamura, Kazuhiko ^a   Takahara, Masakazu ^a   Masunaga, Kana ^b   Sawabe, Takuya ^b   Kitano, Masaki ^c   Mashino, Toshihiko ^b   Furue, Masutaka ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Kitano Dermatology Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

collagen disease; dystrophic calcinosis; lower legs; mixed connective tissue disease; subcutaneous calcification

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; LIMAPROST; PREDNISOLONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CALCINOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; LOWER LEG; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN ULCER; SOFT TISSUE CALCIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SWELLING; THORAX EXAMINATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 79961026114     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2010.01177.x     Document Type: Review

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