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Epidermal and follicular calciphylaxis
A R Solomon1, S L Comite, J T Headington
1Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77550.
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
A patient with secondary hyperparathyroidism due to chronic renal failure developed epidermal and follicular calcification without concomitant dermal calcification in the lesions of toxic epidermal necrolysis. We propose that the combination of keratinocyte necrosis and an elevated serum calcium-phosphorus product resulted in epidermal calciphylaxis.