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. 1984 Feb;43(1):95–97. doi: 10.1136/ard.43.1.95

Malignant myositis ossificans: occult gastric carcinoma presenting as an acute rheumatic disorder.

L H Rosenbaum, J J Nicholas, B S Slasky, D L Obley, L D Ellis
PMCID: PMC1001231  PMID: 6607713

Abstract

A patient developed ossifying skeletal muscle metastases from a primary gastric mucin-producing adenocarcinoma. The unusual nature of skeletal muscle metastases and the inflammatory-like syndrome associated with heterotopic ossification is reviewed. It is suggested that this case of 'neoplasm-induced post-traumatic myositis ossificans' may be caused by the interaction of local haemorrhage and thrombosis, mucin-producing tumour implants, and the presence of large quantities of gamma-carboxyglutamic acid, an amino acid associated with the calcification of bone matrix formation.

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