Visceral soft tissue calcification is common in patients with end-stage renal disease. However, metastatic calcification of the true vocal cords has not been described. We present a patient with chronic renal failure and hoarseness in whom an exophytic true vocal cord mass was diagnosed as a metastatic calcification.
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