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[Myositis ossificans of the neck in a 47 year old patient]
O Brauser1, D Jürgens, S Braunstein
1Klinik für Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde und plastische Kopf- und Halschirurgie des Evangelischen Krankenhauses Düsseldorf, Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Düsseldorf. olaf.brauser@evk-duesseldorf.de
Background:
Myositis ossificans is a heterotopic ossification of the soft tissue, which leads in progredient cases to functional disorder. Cervical localization is a rare entity. The clinical symptoms are more or less unspecific. Indicating is a foregoing trauma of the affected region.
Case Report:
We report about a 47 year old male patient with a dorsocervical mass, which had caused dysfunction. He was operated after the diagnosis had been histologically and radiologically confirmed.
Conclusions:
In case of cervical tumors with radiological evidence of partial calcification differential diagnosis should keep in mind myositis ossificans next to tuberculosis or sarcoma. Surgery and postoperative prophylaxis with Indometacin is the therapy of choice.
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