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## CASE DESCRIPTION A 48-year-old woman presented with painful, bound-down plaques of the calves and buttock. She reported previous injection of cooking oil into her calves and buttocks when she was held captive by human traffickers as a teenager. She initially developed skin hardening in injected areas in 2005, and since 2018 has had worsening of these plaques, flares of swelling, and pain. X-rays revealed calcinosis, soft tissue thickening, and calcified granuloma formation. Pathology revealed sclerotic fibrosis with innumerable vacuoles, focal dystrophic bone formation, and foreign-body giant cells. Ultimately, she required surgical excision of her poorly defined bilateral gluteal plaques with subsequent improvement in pain.

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Author

Elise Burger; Brian Hinds; Taraneh Paravar

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)