Rheumatology 2001; 40: 947-948
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Superficial calcinosis related to bleeding in a patient with undifferentiated connective tissue disease and primary biliary cirrhosis
Division of Rheumatology, Villa Pini Clinic, Chieti and
1 First Division of Internal Medicine, Spirito Santo Hospital, Pescara, Italy
SIR, Calcifications of soft tissues have frequently been described in association with polymyositisdermatomyositis [1], scleroderma [2], scleroderma overlap syndromes [3] and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) [4]. On the contrary, there have been few descriptions of calcifications related to chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), although a French study reported seven subjects with superficial calcific deposits of the lower limbs among 40
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