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Visual Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine| Volume 54, ISSUE 5, P690-691, May 2018

Calciphylaxis

      A 57-year-old man with a history of end-stage renal disease presented to the Emergency Department with a painful, ulcerated lesion on his glans penis for a 2-week duration (Figure 1). He denied associated symptoms, and the remainder of the physical examination was unremarkable.
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      Figure 1One-centimeter, painful, necrotic lesion of the glans penis.
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