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Tumoral calcinosis: an unusual cause of cutaneous calcification
Author(s) -
HARWOOD C.A.,
COOK M.G.,
MORTIMER P.S.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1996.tb00045.x
Subject(s) - calcinosis , calcification , tumoral calcinosis , medicine , dermatology , pathology
Summary Tumoral calcinosis is an uncommon ectopic calcification syndrome characterized clinically by the presence of irregular, painless, periarticular soft tissue calcifying masses, and pathologically by fibrous‐walled cystic spaces containing structureless calcific debris and associated with a variable inflammatory reaction. The pathogenesis remains obscure but the condition probably represents a disordered tissue reparative process. Of the previous literature reports, almost all have been in patients of African origin. We report a case in a white English woman.