Week 229: Case 1

1. Presented by Edward McCarthy, M.D. and prepared by Natasha Rekhtman, M.D., Ph.D.

A 25-year-old woman with sickle cell anemia had pain in her leg for several months. Radiography demonstrated a fluffy calcification in her tibia. A biopsy was performed.

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