Case of (?) Myositis Fibrosa

Myositis ossificans progressive: case report

Myositis ossificans progressiva (MOP) is an autosomal dominant disorder. There is a progressive ectopic ossification and skeletal malformation, mainly in the connective tissue of muscle. The diagnosis is based on the clinical findings and radiological demonstration of the skeletal malformations. A 38-year-old female patient was admitted to our department with progressive increase of the thigh. ...

Myositis Ossificans Progressiva: Case Report

Myositis ossificans progressiva is a rare autosomal dominant disease with less than 1,000 case reports. Such patients present edema, caused by inflammatory processes that progressively calcify, and with loss of mobility in the region affected. The objective of this study was to describe a case of myositis ossificans progressiva, present its clinical manifestations and discuss the treatments ava...

Proliferative Myositis: A Case Report

A 59-year-old man presented with a hard, tender, fixed palpable mass in the superolateral aspect of the left anterior chest wall near the anterior axillar fold. There was no history of trauma to the chest. Four years earlier he had become aware of the presence of a small lump in the left anterior chest wall, and recent rapid growth had occurred. Clinically, a sarcomatous muscular neoplasm was s...

A Case of Traumatic Myositis Ossificans

A Rare Case of Ocular Myositis

We report the case of a 43 year old man who presented recurrent left abducens palsy. His medical history included arterial hypertension, ischemic cardiomiopathy, dyslipidemia, rhinitis, maxillary sinusitis. Physical examination revealed a overweight patient, horizontal gaze diplopia, left nerve VI paresis, mild left retro-orbital pain. The orbital MRI also didn't offer new information: mild ext...