Calcific Tendinitis of the Longus Colli Muscle in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Soyoung Hyun; Jikang Park; Sang Yop Shin; Jinseok Kim

doi:10.4078/jkra.2010.17.1.66

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Hyun, Park, Shin, and Kim: Calcific Tendinitis of the Longus Colli Muscle in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis

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J Korean Rheum Assoc 2010;17(1):66-70.

Published online: 23 March 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4078/jkra.2010.17.1.66

Calcific Tendinitis of the Longus Colli Muscle in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Soyoung Hyun¹, Jikang Park², Sang Yop Shin¹, Jinseok Kim¹

¹Departments of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea

²Departments of Radiology, College of Medicine, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea

Received 9 September 200915 October 2009 Accepted 15 October 2009

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords: Calcific tendinitis, Calcium hydroxyapatite, Longus colli muscle, Rheumatoid arthritis

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Fig. 1.

Nodular calcification (4.8×4.3×7 mm) that is located within the left-side longus colli muscle appears as low signal intensity on all the imaging sequences (white arrow). The prevertebral effusion is seen around the nodular calcification and the adjacent longus colli muscle.

Fig. 2.

The axial and reformatted coronal and sagittal CT images well show the nodular calcification (white arrow), which is anterior to the axis and inferior to the anterior arch of the atlas.

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