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calcification
(redirected from dystrophic calcification)

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calcification [‚kal·sə·fə′kā·shən]
(geochemistry)
Any process of soil formation in which the soil colloids are saturated to a high degree with exchangeable calcium, thus rendering them relatively immobile and nearly neutral in reaction.
(physiology)
The deposit of calcareous matter within the tissues of the body.


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Pathologically, chordoma is a gelatinous, multilobulated mass with areas of dystrophic calcification.
The masses are usually firm and gray-white, and dystrophic calcification is common.
In our patient, CT and MRI detected dystrophic calcification in a deep lobe parotid mass.
 
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