Soft tissue calcifications induced by local corticosteroid injection |
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| Authors: | R J Conti M Shinder |
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| Institution: | Department of Podiatric Surgery Metropolitan Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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| Abstract: | The authors discuss soft tissue calcifications as a possible effect of local corticosteroid therapy. The literature will be reviewed and a case report will be presented, which illustrates soft tissue calcifications in the heel of a patient who received multiple injections of triamcinolone hexacetonide, for heel spur syndrome. The accumulation of insoluable steroid acts as a foreign body and induced a chronic granulomatous inflammatory process, with subsequent dystrophic calcification. |
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