Calcific Uremic Arteriolopathy Revealed Via Hand Radiography
Oh Chan Kwon, So Hyun Kim, Yong-Gil Kim
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Corresponding to: Yong-Gil Kim http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8029-7355 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05505, Korea. E-mail: bestmd2000@amc.seoul.kr
Received 24 January 201830 January 2018 Accepted 30 January 2018
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Figure 1.
Radiograph of the hand in anteroposterior view shows vascular calcifications (arrow heads).