title: Malignant myositis ossificans. A case report.
abstract: A patient presented with an ossifying thigh mass suggestive of myositis ossificans. He had no antecedent trauma to the area. The mass was found to be an ossifying soft tissue metastasis from an occult gastric adenocarcinoma primary. Malignancy, and especially metastatic malignancy, is rarely considered in the differential diagnosis of a radiographic presentation of myositis ossificans.
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Oncology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wetzel
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Borek
mesh_terms: D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009221:Myositis Ossificans / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D013270:Stomach / Q000473:pathology; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D013848:Thigh