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DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2421040423
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Case 104: Calcinosis in Juvenile Dermatomyositis1

Vikas Agarwal, MD, DM, Atul Sachdev, MD, DM and Ajay Kumar Dabra, MD

1 From the Departments of Medicine (V.A., A.S.) and Radiology (A.K.D.), Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India. Received March 1, 2004; revision requested May 13; revision received June 8; accepted July 8; final version accepted September 29.


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  		Figure 1: Photograph of the neck shows multiple whitish nodules in the skin and subcutaneous planes.

 

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  		Figure 2: Left lateral neck radiograph shows calcifications in the skin and subcutaneous planes.

 

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  		Figure 3: Posteroanterior chest radiograph shows diffuse calcifications in the deeper muscular planes and rib cage.

 

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  		Figure 4: Lateral radiographs of the right (left image) and left (right image) knees show diffuse calcifications along fascial planes of the muscles.

 

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  		Figure 5: Lateral radiograph of the left elbow shows diffuse calcifications.

 

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  		Figure 6: Whole-body anterior scintigram obtained 4 hours after 99mTc medronate administration shows increased soft-tissue uptake of the radiotracer.

 




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