Myositis Ossificans (Subscribe)  

Myositis Ossificans (Sterner's Tumor) Discussion: - extra-skeletal ossification that occurs in muscles & other soft tissues - can be traumatic (75%), non traumatic, or progressive; - severe blunt trauma causing an intra-muscular hematoma may result in delayed ossification; -...

Discussion: - calcium hydroxyapatite can be deposited in periarticular soft tissues or within joints; - in either event the disease may be monoarticular or polyarticular; - periarticular disease affects men and women with equal frequency and occurs most commonly during the...

Myositis ossificans progressiva involves episodes of 'myositis' with progressive ossification of the soft tissues and is a seemingly inherited mesenchymal abnormality, fibrodysplasia. The most common skeletal association is a reduction of the number of phalanges in thumb or hallux. It is a very rare condition.
The distribution of the ossification, the...

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