Nephrol Dial Transplant (2004) 19: 505-506
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(Section Editor: G. H. Neild)
Uraemic tumoural calcinosis
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Professor Cheuk Chun Szeto, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China. Email: ccszeto@cuhk.edu.hk
Keywords: metastatic calcification; tumoural calcinosis
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A 59-year-old Chinese patient had a history of end-stage renal disease secondary to glomerulonephritis and underwent peritoneal dialysis. Nine years after initiation of dialysis, he developed an enlarging tumour over his right wrist in the