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Myositis ossificans (MO) is a benign heterotopic bone formation within muscle or soft tissue that is predominantly initiated by trauma. The diagnostic challenge is to distinguish it from bone and soft tissue malignancies. The most common location of MO is the muscles of the thigh and the upper arm, whereas the neck is only rarely involved. A broad range of theories about the etiology of MO exists in the literature, but minor or major trauma can be found in almost every instance. We present a patient in which additional hybrid imaging with singlephoton emission tomography (SPECT) and computed tomography helped to confirm the diagnosis of MO in the paraspinal cervical muscles.
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Beck, T.M., Rasch, H., Bruder, E. et al. Myositis Ossificans Presenting as a Tumor of the Cervical Paraspinal Muscles. Eur J Trauma 36, 257–259 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-009-8094-4
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