[Improvement of tumoral calcinosis of the right hand after parathyroidectomy in a patient on chronic hemodialysis].

Pan Afr Med J

Service de Néphrologie, CHU Hassan II, Equipe de Recherche REIN, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Fès, Maroc.

Published: March 2017

Periarticular tissue calcifications are common in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. We report the case of a patient on chronic hemodialysis for 10 years with significant improvement of isolated pseudotumoral calcinosis of the right hand after parathyroidectomy The aim of this study was to show the impact of parathyroidectomy on pseudotumoral calcinosis.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.24.30.8814DOI Listing

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