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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.
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Han, M., Pang, J., Shinkai, K. et al. Calciphylaxis and bone scintigraphy: case report with histological confirmation and review of the literature. Ann Nucl Med 21, 235–238 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12149-007-0013-3
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