Calcified or ossified benign soft tissue lesions that may simulate malignancy.
review · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31297550.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1007/s00256-019-03272-3 and PMC identifier 6813287.
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Abstract
The purpose of this article is to review calcified or ossified benign soft tissue lesions that may simulate malignancy. We review the clinical presentations, locations, imaging characteristics, and differential diagnostic considerations of myositis ossificans, tophaceous gout, benign vascular lesions, calcific tendinopathy with osseous involvement, periosteal chondroma, primary synovial chondromatosis, Hoffa's disease, tumoral calcinosis, lipoma with metaplasia, calcifying aponeurotic fibroma, calcific myonecrosis, ancient schwannoma, and Castleman disease.
Medical subject headings
- Calcinosis
- Joint Diseases
- Muscular Diseases
- Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue