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A 58-Year-Old Male Patient with Low Back Pain Discloses No

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A 58-year-old male patient with low back pain discloses no history of previous medical diagnoses on initial work-up in your clinic. Radiographic evaluation reveals bilateral, tube-like Y-shaped calcifications in the lower middle pelvic soft tissues. Which laboratory evaluation would likely be positive?


A) Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
B) C-reactive protein
C) Alkaline phosphatase
D) Prostate-specific antigen
E) Glucose tolerance test

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