Calcinosis

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Contents 1 More Specific Terms 2 Introduction 3 Etiology 4 Epidemiology 5 Pathology 6 Laboratory 7 More General Terms 8 References

More Specific Terms

• diaphragmatic calcification
• eggshell calcification

Introduction

• Deposition of Ca+2 in nodular foci in tissue other than the viscera.

Etiology

• disorders of Ca+2 & or phosphorous metabolism
• inflammatory, degenerative or neoplastic disease, scleroderma (calcinosis cutis)
• dermatomyositis (calcinosis universalis)
• milk alkali syndrome (reversible calcinosis)

Epidemiology

• calcinosis universalis (young patients)

Pathology

• deposition of calcium in the skin & subcutaneous tissues

• calcinosis circumscripta
• calcinosis universalis
• calcinosis cutis

• calcification of collagen in large joints

• tumoral calcinosis
• genetic disorder in South African Blacks

• deposition in connective tissue & other sites

• calcinosis universalis (may be fatal)

Laboratory

• serum Ca+2 & phosphorous general within normal limits (calcinosis universalis)

More General Terms

• metabolic disease

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999

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