ArticleSkeletal radiology2018
Intraosseous migration of tendinous calcifications: two case reports.
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- Calcific tendinitis with intraosseous migration mimicking malignancy.Radiology case reports · 2026Article
- Imaging of calcific tendinopathy: natural history, migration patterns, pitfalls, and management: a review.The British journal of radiology · 2024Review
- Intraosseous extension of supraspinatus calcific tendonitis in a young patient with severe shoulder pain: a rare case report.Journal of surgical case reports · 2023Article
- Greater tuberosity osteolysis following calcific supraspinatus tendinitis can be addressed by arthroscopic débridement and single-row rotator cuff repair: a case report.JSES reviews, reports, and techniques · 2023Article
- Extratendinous migration of calcific tendinitis of the rotator cuff: imaging findings and clinical characteristics with temporal changes.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2022Article
- Intra-osseous migration in calcific rotator cuff tendinopathy- a novel depiction of temporal evolution on multimodality imaging.BJR case reports · 2022Article
- Periarticular calcifications.Skeletal radiology · 2022Review
- Humeral greater tuberosity osteolysis as a complication of intraosseous calcification migration: natural history depicted by imaging.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2021Article
- [Calcifying tendinitis with osseous involvement : A diagnostic challenge].Der Radiologe · 2020Review
- Ultrasound features of painful intraosseous migration of pectoralis major tendinous calcifications with follow-up.Journal of ultrasound · 2020Article
- MRI findings in intraosseous extension of calcific supraspinatus tendonitis.Radiology case reports · 2020Article
- Calcific tendinitis: intramuscular and intraosseous migration.Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2019Article
- Painful swelling in the proximal third of the arm.Skeletal radiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Calcific tendinopathy of the rotator cuff is a common cause of shoulder pain. Inflammation of the rotator cuff tendons may be complicated by adjacent bone erosion and subsequent migration of calcific deposits within the bone resulting in marrow inflammation. Bone marrow involvement is not readily visible using X-ray and ultrasound (US) and further testing is necessary. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a highly sensitive technique that can detect a focal bone T1 and T2-weighted hypointensity with bone marrow edema-like signal and cortical erosion. These findings can mislead the radiologist by suggesting an infectious or neoplastic lesion, often requiring further evaluation with computed tomography (CT) and biopsy. We report two cases of patients with shoulder pain in which different radiological approaches were used with pathological confirmation in one of them. In the first case, MRI revealed significant bone involvement in the head of the humerus and cortical erosion of the greater tuberosity. A CT examination and a biopsy was necessary for a final diagnosis of inflammatory bone reaction from intraosseous migration of tendinous calcifications. In the second case, similar MRI findings prompted re-evaluation of imaging to make a diagnosis of intraosseous migration of tendinous calcifications, obviating the need to perform CT and biopsy. We illustrate MRI signs of this complication that we think would allow to narrow the differential diagnosis potentially avoiding biopsy and additional CT examinations.
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