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This case highlights a staged reconstructive strategy to remove calcified tissue and achieve definitive wound closure. Case Presentation: A 73-year-old woman with a 22-year history of rheumatoid arthritis presented with painful, partially confluent pretibial ulcerations, purulent drainage, impaired mobility, and extrusion of chalk-like material. Radiographic and histopathological findings supported dystrophic calcinosis cutis. Deep-tissue culture grew Escherichia coli, treated with intravenous ertapenem. Tangential excision of necrotic tissue and accessible calcific deposits resulted in an irregular full-thickness defect extending to the pretibial fascia. A synthetic polylactic acid matrix was applied with single-use negative pressure wound therapy for 14 days, followed by split-thickness skin grafting on day 21. Graft take exceeded 90%, and residual areas epithelialized without regrafting. At 12 months, the wound remained completely epithelialized without recurrent ulceration, with pain resolution and return to baseline activities. Conclusions: In this patient with ulcerated dystrophic calcinosis cutis associated with rheumatoid arthritis, staged reconstruction using surgical excision, a polylactic acid matrix, single-use negative pressure wound therapy, and split-thickness skin grafting facilitated recipient-bed preparation and definitive cutaneous closure of the post-excisional defect. This case supports the feasibility of this sequence for wound reconstruction in selected complex ulcerated lesions. 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