Tumoral calcinosis is a rare disorder that most often occurs in periarticular regions of the extremities. Here, we report a case of cervical tumoral calcinosis in a hemodialysis patient. The patient was a 67-year-old Japanese man on maintenance dialysis for 5 years. He presented with a 2-week history of progressive cervical myelopathy in March 2006. Findings on cervical plain radiography showed spondylotic change and narrowing of the disc space between C-5 and C-6, but there was no definitive calcification. A spinal mass lesion posterior to the spinal cord at C3-4 level, resulting in marked spinal cord compression was demonstrated on magnetic resonance imaging of the cervical spine. Thus, the tentative preoperative diagnosis was cervical spine tumor. The patient
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