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Visceral and testicular calcifications as part of the phenotype in pseudoxanthoma elasticum: ultrasound findings in Belgian patients and healthy carriers

¹ Center for Medical Genetics, ² Department of Sonography, ³ Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, Ghent University, Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

View larger version (102K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Ultrasound images of calcified foci in several abdominal organs:(a) frontal cross-section through the abdomen with multiple calcifications in the liver of a pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) patient; (b) subcostal transverse cross-section of the liver of a heterozygous carrier in which two calcifications with acoustic shadowing are seen; (c,d) frontal cross-section through the abdomen with view of multiple hyperechogenic foci in (c) the right kidney and (d) spleen of PXE patients.

View larger version (126K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Longitudinal cross-section of the testicle with scattered parenchymatous calcifications in the right testicle of a pseudoxanthoma elasticum(PXE) patient as a typical example of testicular microlithiasis.