to harden. Calcifications may be classified on whether there is mineral balance or not, and the location of the calcification. Calcification may also refer...
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Dystrophic calcification (DC) is the calcification occurring in degenerated or necrotic tissue, as in hyalinized scars, degenerated foci in leiomyomas...
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Primary familial brain calcification (PFBC), also known as familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (FIBGC) and Fahr's disease, is a rare, genetically...
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calcification is often found in many tissues throughout a person or animal, whereas dystrophic calcification is localized. Metastatic calcification can...
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soft tissues as they do in bone. Calcification in the tendons is a common component of tendinopathy. The calcification consists of tendinitis is caused...
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Popcorn calcification or popcorn appearance is the radiological appearance of calcification with irregular rings and arcs, which resembles popcorns. The...
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Pineal gland (redirect from Calcification of the pineal gland)
calcified gland is often seen in skull X-rays. Calcification rates vary widely by country and correlate with an increase in age, with calcification occurring...
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Calcific bursitis refers to calcium deposits within the bursae. This most occurs in the shoulder area. The most common bursa for calcific bursitis to...
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lungs, eyes, arteries, or other organs is known as ectopic calcification, dystrophic calcification, or ectopic ossification. Absorption of calcium salts normally...
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Calciphylaxis (redirect from Calcific uremic arteriolopathy)
findings: systemic medial calcification of the arteries, i.e. calcification of tunica media. Unlike other forms of vascular calcifications (e.g., intimal, medial...
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Calcinosis cutis (redirect from Solitary congenital nodular calcification)
calciphylaxis, idiopathic calcification, iatrogenic calcification, dystrophic calcification, and metastatic calcification. Tumors, inflammation, varicose...
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Calcinosis (section Dystrophic calcification)
failure. The most common type of calcinosis is dystrophic calcification. This type of calcification can occur as a response to any soft tissue damage, including...
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scans. However, mitral annular calcification remains clinically significant because while in many cases the calcification is limited to the annulus and...
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Lithopedion (redirect from Calcified fetus)
distinguished three subgroups: Lithokelyphos ("Stone Sheath"), where calcification occurs on the placental membrane and not the fetus; Lithotecnon ("Stone...
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Marine biogenic calcification is the production of calcium carbonate by organisms in the global ocean. Marine biogenic calcification is the biologically...
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Aortic stenosis (redirect from Aortic calcification)
valve, and this calcification causes hardening and stenosis of the valve. Another major cause of aortic stenosis is the calcification of a congenital...
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Generalized arterial calcification of infancy (GACI) is an extremely rare genetic disorder. It is caused by mutations in the ENPP1 gene in 75% of the...
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Tonsil stones (redirect from Dystrophic calcification in the tonsils)
phlebolites, ectopic bone or cartilage, lymph nodes, granulomatous lesions or calcification of the stylohyoid ligament in the context of Eagle syndrome (elongated...
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Atherosclerosis (section Calcification and lipids)
smooth muscle proliferation by releasing nitric oxide.[citation needed] Calcification forms among vascular smooth muscle cells of the surrounding muscular...
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Calcified Tissue International is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Springer Science+Business Media and first launched in 1967. From 1967 to...
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believed to be caused by dystrophic calcification. This process involves subclinical inflammation, rupture, calcification, and cyst wall obliteration. Single...
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contribute ~1–10% to inorganic carbon fixation (calcification) to total carbon fixation (calcification plus photosynthesis) in the surface ocean and ~50%...
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Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis (redirect from Monckeberg medial calcific sclerosis)
vascular calcification that includes atherosclerosis and calcification in the inner layer of the artery wall (tunica intima), calcification of the internal...
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Arterial calcification due to CD73 deficiency or Calcification of joints and arteries is a rare genetic disorder affecting adults. This condition is characterised...
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nuclei, are present within the epithelial lining and may undergo calcification. Most calcifying odontogenic cysts appear asymptomatic. They are normally presented...
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Alkaptonuria (redirect from Intervertebral disk calcification)
rupture of tendons and muscles may occur. Valvular heart disease, mainly calcification and regurgitation of the aortic and mitral valves, may occur, and in...
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Urbach–Wiethe disease (redirect from Bilateral intracranial sickle-shaped calcification of the temporal lobes)
causing lesions. The amount of calcification is often related to disease duration. The true prevalence of these calcifications is difficult to accurately...
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Pilomatricoma (redirect from Calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe)
transition into keratinaceous to amorphous necrosis. The presence of calcifications with foreign-body giant cells is common within the tumors. Pilomatricoma...
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patients with calcified gallbladders of two types (intramural calcification and selective mucosal calcification). The selective mucosal calcification group showed...
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Basal ganglia disease (redirect from Basal ganglia calcification)
LSh, Miminoshvili DK, Maniia MN, Mdivani KS (2006). "[Basal ganglia calcification: clinical manifestations and diagnostic evaluation]". Georgian Med News...
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