Diffuse cutaneous calculi (subepidermal calcified nodules): case study.

摘要: Four forms of calcinosis cutis exist: metastatic calcinosis, dystrophic idiopathic and subepidermal calcified nodules, usually referred to as cutaneous calculi because single, small, raised, hard nodules are present. Occasionally, there two or three in some instances numerous even innumerable nodules. Most patients children, but patients, a nodule is present already at birth does not appear until about adult life; instances, the surface verrucous, it may be smooth. The most common location face. A 12-year-old Yemeni child patient presented with warty, hard- smooth-surface, white, small large non-itchy face four extremities, which started 4 years after birth, 8 years' duration. Serum levels calcium, phosphorous, parathyroid hormones were normal. Plain chest X-ray, abdominal ultrasonography, complete blood count picture Skin biopsy followed by histopathological examination was diagnostic. treated curettage surgical removal.