Calcium hydroxyapatite deposition disease: Imaging features and presentations mimicking other pathologies

•This review focuses on imaging calcium hydroxyapatite deposition disease (HADD).•HADD can mimic infection, trauma, and tumor.•Familiarity with the range of HADD presentations is critical for diagnosis.•Early diagnosis of HADD can avoid costly work-up or interventions. Calcium hydroxyapatite deposit...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:European journal of radiology 2019-11, Vol.120, p.108653-108653, Article 108653
Main Authors: Hongsmatip, Patcharee, Cheng, Karen Y., Kim, Christopher, Lawrence, David A., Rivera, Robert, Smitaman, Edward
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Bone Diseases - diagnosis
Bone Diseases, Infectious - diagnosis
Bone Neoplasms - diagnosis
Calcinosis - diagnosis
Calcium hydroxyapatite depositional disease
Diagnosis, Differential
Durapatite
Early Diagnosis
Female
HADD
Humans
Infection
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasm
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Trauma
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:•This review focuses on imaging calcium hydroxyapatite deposition disease (HADD).•HADD can mimic infection, trauma, and tumor.•Familiarity with the range of HADD presentations is critical for diagnosis.•Early diagnosis of HADD can avoid costly work-up or interventions. Calcium hydroxyapatite depositional disease (HADD) is usually asymptomatic and self-limiting; however, when there is an associated inflammatory process or HADD occurs in an unusual location, it may mimic trauma, infection, or neoplasm. The purpose of this article is to review the imaging features of HADD and how to distinguish it from more worrisome entities that can have similar appearances. An understanding of the presentations of HADD is important to allow early and confident diagnosis. In particular, familiarity with presentations that resemble more ominous pathologies is essential to avoid costly and time-consuming workup or intervention.
ISSN:0720-048X
1872-7727
DOI:10.1016/j.ejrad.2019.108653