Abstract
The most frequent form of idiopathic calcinosis is tumoral calcinosis (TC) which rarely occurs at young ages. We describe here a TC case of a young boy with its light microscopy completed with electron microscopic examinations. X-ray microanalysis revealed in the intracellular crystals CaCl2 besides the previously described hydroxyapatite. The significance of this finding is unknown at the moment.
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Balogh, K., Ferencz, T., Csikós, A. et al. Tumoral calcinosis in infancy. Pathol. Oncol. Res. 1, 80–84 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02893589
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