Soft tissue calcifications induced by local corticosteroid injection

The authors discuss soft tissue calcifications as a possible effect of local corticosteroid therapy. The literature will be reviewed and a case report will be presented, which illustrates soft tissue calcifications in the heel of a patient who received multiple injections of triamcinolone hexacetonide, for heel spur syndrome. The accumulation of insoluable steroid acts as a foreign body and induced a chronic granulomatous inflammatory process, with subsequent dystrophic calcification.