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Metastatic calcification and cytomegalovirus infection
Author(s) -
GRATTAN CE.H.,
BUIST L.,
HUBSCHER S.G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1988.tb03504.x
Subject(s) - cytomegalovirus , metastatic calcification , hypercalcaemia , medicine , cytomegalovirus infection , calcification , pathology , cytomegalovirus infections , calcinosis , herpesviridae , immunology , viral disease , human cytomegalovirus , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , virus , calcium
SUMMARY We report a patient who developed hypercalcaemic metastatic cutaneous calcification in association with a cytomegalovirus infection after a liver transplant. The skin nodules disappeared as the hypercalcaemia resolved and the cytomegalovirus infection subsided.