Abstract
The clinical entity known as calcinosis is an extremely interesting form of pathologic calcification. The classification proposed by Steinitz is usually accepted; the cases are divided into two groups:— (i) Calcinosis circumscripta, (ii) Calcinosis Universalis, but there is no sharp demarcation between the two groups. The circumscript form usually occurs in middle-aged and elderly women and is mainly confined to the upper limbs; the calcium deposits occur in the dermal and subdermal tissues; the fingers are especially liable to involvement, an interesting feature in view of the frequent association of calcinosis with Raynaud's angiospastic syndrome and with scleroderma; other sites of election are the subcutaneous tissues in the prepatellar and olecranon zones.
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