Calciphylaxis and bone scintigraphy: case report with histological confirmation and review of the literature.
We present a patient with a history of end-stage renal disease, who developed skin lesions in the bilateral calves a month after the initiation of hemodialysis. The lesions were biopsied, and the histological findings were consistent with a diagnosis of calciphylaxis. The patient had a baseline pretreatment bone scan that showed extensive systemic disease. The patient died 20 days after the imaging study. A review of the literature on bone scans and calciphylaxis is presented.
Han
Myo M
MM
University of California, San Francisco, Nuclear Medicine Program, Department of Radiology and Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging at China Basin, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Pang
Judy
J
Shinkai
Kanade
K
Franc
Ben
B
Hawkins
Randy
R
Aparici
Carina M
CM
D001706:Biopsy; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology*; D002115:Calciphylaxis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005734:Gangrene / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000379:methods*