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Familial tumoral calcinosis: a forty-year follow-up on one family.
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume - 1 Mar 2009
Carmichael Kelly D, Bynum James A, Evans E Burke
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BACKGROUND: Familial tumoral calcinosis is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that was first described well in a report on four patients from one family in 1969. The disease leads to periarticular ectopic calcifications. The original report described patients from black, healthy, unrelated parents with sixteen children, seven of whom had the disease. METHODS: On the basis of retrospective chart reviews and...
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