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Published on: June 2, 2022
Understanding calcinosis cutis
Elizabeth SaterenZoller1, Marco Rizzo, Albert Harris
1Elizabeth SaterenZoller practices in emergency medicine at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., and in plastic, reconstructive, and hand surgery at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, Minn. Marco Rizzo is chair of the Division of Hand Surgery in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Albert Harris is a consultant in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, Minn. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Abstract:
Calcinosis cutis is the aberrant deposition of insoluble calcified salts in cutaneous tissue that occurs in association with a variety of diseases. A relatively uncommon disorder, it can range in severity from mild to debilitating. This article describes a patient with a long history of dermatomyositis who developed multiple calcific lesions in the extremities that did not respond to conservative therapies and eventually required multiple surgical interventions.
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