Hydroxyapatite Deposition
Types
Dystrophic or Metastatic
1. Metastatic
- hypercalcaemia / hyperphosphatemia
2. Dystrophic
- more common
- onto damaged connective tissue
- tendon / ligament / cartilage
- calcific tendonitis shoulder
- Pellegrini-Steida lesion MCL
Pathology
Deposited around chondrocytes & into avascular portion of CT