Soft-tissue calcification

Calcification is the accumulation of calcium salts in a body tissue. It normally occurs in the formation of bone, but calcium can be deposited abnormally in soft tissue, causing it to harden. [Source: Wikipedia ]

May Be Caused by
AIDS
Alkaptonuria
Anterior longitudinal ligament ossification of the cervical spine in childhood
Anterior tibial compartment syndrome
Arterial calcification
Brown fat necrosis
Calcific tendinitis
Calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe
Calcinosis universalis
Calcium gluconate infiltration
Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbonate apatite deposition
Chondrodysplasia punctata
Chronic granulomatous disease of childhood
Compartment syndrome
Congenital fibromatosis
Copper deficiency
COPS syndrome
CREST syndrome
Dermatomyositis
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Epidermal nevus syndrome
Epidermolysis bullosa
Epithelioma
Familial osteoma cutis
Familial synovial chondromatosis and dwarfism
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Fibrogenesis imperfecta ossium
Florid reactive periostitis
Fluorosis
Focal scleroderma
Gorlin syndrome
Gout
Hemangioma
Homocystinuria
Hydrops - ectopic calcification - moth-eaten skeletal dysplasia
Hydroxyapatite deposition disease
Hypercalcemia
Hyperlipoproteinemia
Hyperparathyroidism
Hypervitaminosis D
Hypoparathyroidism
Hypophosphatasia
Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Leprosy
Madelung disease
Maffucci syndrome
Mandibuloacral dysplasia
Melnick-Needles osteodysplasty
Melorheostosis
Milk-alkali syndrome
Mixed connective tissue disease
Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2A
Myositis ossificans
Neoplasm
Neuropathic state
Oxalosis
Pachydermoperiostosis
Paralysis
Parasite
Peritendinitis calcarea
Peritoneal dialysis
Phlebolith
Porphyria
Progeria
Progressive osseous heteroplasia
Pseudohypoparathyroidism
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
Renal osteodystrophy
Rhabdomyolysis
Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
Scleroderma
Singleton-Merten syndrome
Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn and hypercalcemia
Surgical scar
Synovial osteochondromatosis
Synovial sarcoma
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Takayasu arteritis
Thermal injury
Tietze syndrome
Trauma
Tumoral calcinosis
Venous calcification
Vitamin A intoxication
Volkmann contracture
Weber-Christian syndrome
Werner syndrome
Williams syndrome
Wilson disease
Xanthoma
Zellweger syndrome
AIDS
Alkaptonuria
Anterior longitudinal ligament ossification of the cervical spine in childhood
Anterior tibial compartment syndrome
Arterial calcification
Brown fat necrosis
Calcific tendinitis
Calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe
Calcinosis universalis
Calcium gluconate infiltration
Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbonate apatite deposition
Chondrodysplasia punctata
Chronic granulomatous disease of childhood
Compartment syndrome
Congenital fibromatosis
Copper deficiency
COPS syndrome
CREST syndrome
Dermatomyositis
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Epidermal nevus syndrome
Epidermolysis bullosa
Epithelioma
Familial osteoma cutis
Familial synovial chondromatosis and dwarfism
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Fibrogenesis imperfecta ossium
Florid reactive periostitis
Fluorosis
Focal scleroderma
Gorlin syndrome
Gout
Hemangioma
Homocystinuria
Hydrops - ectopic calcification - moth-eaten skeletal dysplasia
Hydroxyapatite deposition disease
Hypercalcemia
Hyperlipoproteinemia
Hyperparathyroidism
Hypervitaminosis D
Hypoparathyroidism
Hypophosphatasia
Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Leprosy
Madelung disease
Maffucci syndrome
Mandibuloacral dysplasia
Melnick-Needles osteodysplasty
Melorheostosis
Milk-alkali syndrome
Mixed connective tissue disease
Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2A
Myositis ossificans
Neoplasm
Neuropathic state
Oxalosis
Pachydermoperiostosis
Paralysis
Parasite
Peritendinitis calcarea
Peritoneal dialysis
Phlebolith
Porphyria
Progeria
Progressive osseous heteroplasia
Pseudohypoparathyroidism
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
Renal osteodystrophy
Rhabdomyolysis
Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
Scleroderma
Singleton-Merten syndrome
Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn and hypercalcemia
Surgical scar
Synovial osteochondromatosis
Synovial sarcoma
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Takayasu arteritis
Thermal injury
Tietze syndrome
Trauma
Tumoral calcinosis
Venous calcification
Vitamin A intoxication
Volkmann contracture
Weber-Christian syndrome
Werner syndrome
Williams syndrome
Wilson disease
Xanthoma
Zellweger syndrome