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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