Tumoral Calcinosis Causing Bilateral Thigh Pain

Radiology Case Reports

We report a case of a 75-year-old female with bilateral thigh pain for several years secondary to soft tissue calcification. Massive calcinosis of the soft tissues is a unique, but not uncommon, radiographic finding. On the contrary, tumoral calcinosis is a rare familial disease. The term tumoral calcinosis has been overly used to describe any massive collection of periarticular calcification. ...

CASE REPORT Idiopathic Tumoral Calcinosis of the Nontraumatic Thumb

We report a case of idiopathic tumoral calcinosis localized to the thumb without prior trauma or surgery. Initial physical examination and imaging studies were suggestive of more common etiologies of thumb pain. After treatment failure, a biopsy specimen revealed calcium phosphate salt deposition in the soft tissue around the metacarpophalangeal joint, which was treated by excision of the tumor...

Calcinose tumorale chez un hémodialysé

Tumoral calcinosis is a rare benign condition, characterized by calcium deposition in the soft tissue in extra-articular location which progresses toward a tumoral form. It can be primary or secondary to chronic renal insufficiency. We report a new case of tumoral calcinosis in a 27 years old young man. This patient with renal failure secondary to a malformative uropathy over a period of 15 yea...

Tumoral calcinosis in children, a challenging and possibly underdiagnosed condition.

Tumoral calcinosis is a rare condition characterized by deposits of calcium hydroxyapatite crystals in periarticular soft tissues. Three clinical settings are possible: complication of renal dialysis, hereditary and sporadic. The condition more commonly affects adults, is rare in children and extremely uncommon in infants. A case of sporadic tumoral calcinosis of the hip is reported in a six-ye...

Characterization of native FGF23 protein and mutant forms causing autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets and familial tumoral calcinosis