Patterns of tumoral calcinosis in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.
An analysis was made of 7 cases of tumoral calcinosis diagnosed during a period of 6 years at a central laboratory serving the Igbos of Nigeria, West Africa. As in Papua New Guinea, the hip is the region of predilection and adults are usually affected, especially females. In both populations , most cases show discrete, solitary, hard, subcutaneous lesions which measure from 1 cm to 8 cm across.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006615:Hip / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009512:New Guinea; D009549:Nigeria; D012744:Sex Ratio; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*