Soft Tissue Calcifications

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dystrophic, idiopathic, metastasis

types of heterotopic calcification

-antrolith, rhinolith: in sinus, nasal -phlebolith: veins -sailothic: salivary gland -

what are the -liths

osteoma cutis -calcifications in cheek/lip

what are these

calcification from degenerating, diseased or dead tissue -trauma, chronic inflammation, injections EX: lymph nodes, tonsils, arteries

what is dystrophic calcification

laryngeal cartilage calcification

what is pointed to

calcified carotid atheromatous plaque (dsytrophic) -history of STROKE

what is this

lymph node calcification (dystrophic)

what is this

ossified stylohyoid ligament -eagle's syndrome -pain swallowing, turn head, yawning

what is this

sialothis (idiopathic) -calcified salivary glands

what is this

tonsilliths (dystrophic)

what is this

tonsillitis and sialothis

what two things are shown here

-dark green: lymph nodes -light green: tonsilloliths -brown: ossified stylohyoid

identify this picture

deposit Ca in normal tissues, higher Ca and PO, bilateral and symmetrical -hyperthyroidism

define metastatic calcification

-deposit Ca in normal tissues EX: sialothis, phleboiths

describe idiopathic calcification

-calcification: unorganized mineral deposit into soft tissue (D, I, M) -ossification: normal mineralization in abnormal location (stylohyoid)

difference between heterotopic calcification and heterotopic ossification


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