title: Myositis Ossificans Presenting as a Tumor of the Cervical Paraspinal Muscles.
abstract: Myositis ossificans (MO) is a benign heterotopic bone formation within muscle or soft tissue that is predominantly initiated by trauma. The diagnostic challenge is to distinguish it from bone and soft tissue malignancies. The most common location of MO is the muscles of the thigh and the upper arm, whereas the neck is only rarely involved. A broad range of theories about the etiology of MO exists in the literature, but minor or major trauma can be found in almost every instance. We present a patient in which additional hybrid imaging with singlephoton emission tomography (SPECT) and computed tomography helped to confirm the diagnosis of MO in the paraspinal cervical muscles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. tbeck@uhbs.ch.|Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, 4031, Basel, Switzerland. tbeck@uhbs.ch.
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rasch
authors.affiliation: Institute for Pathology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bruder
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Rolf W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Hügli
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kettelhack
keywords: Hybrid imaging; Myositis ossificans; Paraspinal muscles; Single-photon emission tomography
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