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Comment
. 2011 Jun;103(2):199-200.
doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2011.03.014. Epub 2011 Mar 24.

Reply to the article of C. Markello et al. entitled "Vascular pathology of medial arterial calcifications in NT5E deficiency: Implications for the role of adenosine in pseudoxanthoma elasticum"

Georges Lefthériotis, Olivier Vanakker, Olivier Le Saux, Ludovic Martin
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Reply to the article of C. Markello et al. entitled "Vascular pathology of medial arterial calcifications in NT5E deficiency: Implications for the role of adenosine in pseudoxanthoma elasticum"

Georges Lefthériotis et al. Mol Genet Metab. 2011 Jun.
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Fig. 1
Non-opacified CT-scan of the lower legs in a patient with PXE disease (male, 59 years) showing the typical calcified proximal (blue) and distal (cyan) arteries. Note the absence of arteriomegaly. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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  • Reply to Professor Lefthériotis et al.
    Markello TC, St Hilaire C, Ziegler SG, Nussbaum RL, Boehm M, Gahl WA. Markello TC, et al. Mol Genet Metab. 2011 Jul;103(3):305. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2011.04.008. Epub 2011 Apr 22. Mol Genet Metab. 2011. PMID: 21592834 No abstract available.

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