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Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Skeletal Muscle Disease
Published on: December 18, 2016
Milk of calcium fluid collections in juvenile dermatomyositis: MR characteristics
C Samson1, R L Soulen, E Gursel
1Department of Radiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 3390 John R. Street, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
Pediatric Radiology
|February 9, 2000
Abstract:
Children with dermatomyositis may have extensive subcutaneous and intermuscular calcium-laden fluid collections referred to as "milk of calcium." The distinctive MR appearance of such collections in an upper extremity of a 16-year-old girl is presented. MR can differentiate these collections from abscesses and guide appropriate therapy.

