Intense Soft Tissue Calcification of the Head and Neck Following Tracheostomy

Dystrophic calcification is the accumulation of calcium salts, especially calcium phosphate, which can occur anywhere in the body. Unlike other heterotopic calcifications, it occurs in damaged tissue when there is no calcium imbalance. The most common sites are the heart muscle and valve and it is rarely seen in the head and neck region. It can appear by any cause of soft tissue degeneration such as trauma, infection, inflammation, and neoplasia. It is not symptomatic unless a dystrophic calcification mass is present and is usually detected incidentally. Determination of the etiology plays an important role in the planning of the treatment so that the patient's history, laboratory findings, and imaging methods are very important.

Journal

JOURNAL OF CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY

Year

2021

Volume

32

Issue

2

Pages

E145-E147

ISSN

1049-2275

eISSN

1536-3732

DOI

10.1097/SCS.0000000000006939

WoS UID

WOS:000662269900013

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