Tumoral calcinosis: an unusual cause of cutaneous calcification.
Tumoral calcinosis is an uncommon ectopic calcification syndrome characterized clinically by the presence of irregular, painless, periarticular soft tissue calcifying masses, and pathologically by fibrous-walled cystic spaces containing structureless calcific debris and associated with a variable inflammatory reaction. The pathogenesis remains obscure but the condition probably represents a disordered tissue reparative process. Of the previous literature reports, almost all have been in patients of African origin. We report a case in a white English woman.
Harwood
C A
CA
Department of Dermatology, St. George's Hospital, London, UK.
Cook
M G
MG
Mortimer
P S
PS
D000368:Aged; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*