Soft tissue calcifications
Characteristics
A variety of radiopaque calcifications within the overlying soft tissues may be detected radiographically.
Examples:
:salivary calculi,
- Rhinoliths
- Calcified lymph nodes
- Calcified tonsils
- Phleboliths
- Calcified atheromatic plaques in arteries
- Antroliths
Bilateral elongation of the styloid process and calcification of the stylohyoid ligament.
Antrolith in the left sinus
Antrolith
Calcified lymph nodes; different cases.
Calcified atheromatic plaques in arteries. Different cases
Calcified stylohyoid ligament.
Different cases of calcified submandibular gland calculi.
Calcified salivary calculus in the parotid gland
A case of a large sialolith
calcified tonsils on panoramic and cbct images
Phleboliths