Gamuts

Localized soft-tissue calcification

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Is A
Calcification in muscles and subcutaneous tissues
May Be Caused by
 Common
Ankylosing spondylitis
Arterial calcification
BCG vaccination
Calcified hematoma
Calcinosis circumscripta
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
Fat necrosis
Fracture with avulsed fragment
Injection
Lymph node
Myositis ossificans
Peritendinitis calcarea
Psoriatic arthritis
Reiter syndrome
Rheumatoid arthritis
Tuberculosis
Venous calcification
 Uncommon
Chondroma
Chondrosarcoma
Epithelioma
Fibromyxoma
Fibrosarcoma
Foreign body granuloma
Healing abscess
Hemangioma
Keloid
Leiomyoma
Leprosy
Lipoma
Liposarcoma
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
Melorheostosis
Parasitic infection
Parosteal osteosarcoma
Pyogenic fibrositis
Pyogenic myositis
Radiation therapy
Scar
Singleton-Merten syndrome
Soft tissue osteosarcoma
Synovial sarcoma
Thermal injury
Tumoral calcinosis
Volkmann ischemic contracture
Xanthoma

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