Causes of intraabdominal calcification
- Renal calculi (80% radio dense) and bladder calculi
- Cholelithiasis (10%-15% radio dense) and “milk of calcium”
- Porcelain gallbladder (20% risk for cancer)
- Pancreas (usually chronic pancreatitis, includes cancer, vessels and cysts)
- Calcified lymph nodes (chronic inflammation, includes spleen)
- Vascular calcifications (aortic aneurysm or dissection)
- Appendicoliths (plus acute right lower quadrant pain very predictive of appendicitis)
