Metastatic calcification and cytomegalovirus infection.
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.
Grattan
C E
CE
Department of Dermatology, General Hospital, Birmingham, U.K.
Buist
L
L
Hubscher
S G
SG
D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000209:etiology*; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000209:etiology; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology*