"Tumoural calcinosis was first described by Giard in 1898, followed by a report by Duret in 1899 2. From 1935 onwards, Otto Richard Teutschlaender (1874-1950), a German pathologist, studied this condition and described it in several publications 8,9; hence its eponym which is found widely in the European - but unknown in the American - literature. In 1943, the Cuban pathologist Alberto Inclan and colleagues, unaware of the European discoveries, described three cases and introduced the term tumoural calcinosis for the entity 2,10."