“…Differential diagnoses of HFTC include progressive osseous heteroplasia, Cole disease, benign tumoral calcinosis, porphyria cutanea tarda, normophosphatemic FTC, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, iatrogenic tumoral calcinosis and connective tissue diseaseassociated tumoral calcinosis, which all have normophosphatemia (1,8). Very rarely, cutaneous or tendinous xanthomas of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia needs differentiation from HFTC lesions (9,10). Diagnoses of chronic renal failure and pseudohypoparathyroidism were excluded, in our patient, using appropriate biochemical and hormonal investigations.…”