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Soft Tissue Calcifications

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Description: Soft tissue calcifications pop up all of the time, and it behooves the radiologist to say something intelligent about them. Fortunately the differential diagnosis for this finding is not too difficult. Soft tissue calcifications are usually caused by one of the following six entities.
Dystrophic
CPPD
Metastatic calcification
Tumoral calcinosis
Metastatic osteosarcoma
Primary soft tissue osteosarcoma
MSK Radiology Textbook

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Added: Thu Jan 31 2002
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