[Teutschländer disease. A rare benign differential diagnosis of proliferative space-occupying lesions in the periarticular soft tissue].

The tumoral calcinosis (synonym: Teutschlander disease) is a very rare benign metabolic dysfunction of unknown etiology. It manifests principally as massive subcutaneous soft tissue deposits of calcium phosphate near the large joints and is also characterized by slow progressive growth. Causally, a disturbance of the calcium and phosphate metabolism/balance with, among others, autosomal dominant heredity is suspected. It appears frequently in...