NDT Plus Advance Access published online on September 25, 2009
NDT Plus, doi:10.1093/ndtplus/sfp139
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Post-renal transplant calciphylaxis: treatment of hyperparathyroidism by percutaneous ethanol injection therapy and parathyroidectomy
Department of Internal Medicine, Kosin University College of Medicine, Gospel Hospital, Busan, Korea
Correspondence: Yeon Soon Jung; E-mail: kidney@hanmail.net
Key Words: calciphylaxis parathyroidectomy renal transplantation
Received for publication August 26, 2009. Accepted for publication August 31, 2009.
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A 50-year-old Asian woman presented with finger calciphylaxis in the fourth and fifth distal fingers with vascular calcification of both hands (Figure 1). The patient had undergone haemodialysis due to diabetes mellitus nephropathy for 8 years
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