CT appearance of large sternoclavicular calcific masses in a teenager with chronic renal disease and secondary hyperparathyroidism, on hemodialysis maintenance.
The case of a 14-year-old teenager is reported who had large sternoclavicular masses. The young man had chronic renal disease due to chronic glomerulonephritis and had been on hemodialysis maintenance for many years. CT showed the masses to be lobulated with low attenuation septa. Metastatic calcification occurs in various systemic diseases.
Department of Radiology, State University of New York Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn.
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BM
O'Malley
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JO
Haller
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J
Twersky
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AH
Tejani
D000293:Adolescent; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D002968:Clavicle / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D006962:Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D013249:Sternum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed