Abdominal calcifications in infants and children

Abdominal and pelvic calcifications are usually incidental findings and require further measures to determine their origin. Most laboratory investigations are of little help. Plain anteroposterior and lateral x-rays are essential. The time of appearance and localisation of a calcification is of diag...

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Published inZeitschrift für Kinderchirurgie Vol. 39; no. 6; p. 368
Main Authors Pintér, A B, Weisenbach, J, Szemlédy, F
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany 01.12.1984
Subjects
Abdomen
Abdominal Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Calcinosis - diagnostic imaging
Calcinosis - surgery
Child
Child, Preschool
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Ovarian Cysts - diagnostic imaging
Ovarian Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Pelvic Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Radiography
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Summary:Abdominal and pelvic calcifications are usually incidental findings and require further measures to determine their origin. Most laboratory investigations are of little help. Plain anteroposterior and lateral x-rays are essential. The time of appearance and localisation of a calcification is of diagnostic importance. Amorphous, granular and irregular calcification can be an early sign of malignancy. Mobility of a calcification also helps to clarify its origin. Over the past 15 years abdominal and pelvic calcifications, excluding urological radiodensities, have been found in 63 patients up to fourteen years of age at our institute. A migrating deposit in the omentum, a spontaneously amputated calcified ovary mimicking a vesical calculus and a congenital retroperitoneal xanthofibroma caused the greatest difficulty in establishing a preoperative diagnosis.
ISSN:0174-3082