deposition

Types

Dystrophic or Metastatic

1.  Metastatic 

- hypercalcaemia / hyperphosphatemia

2.  Dystrophic 

- more common

- onto damaged connective tissue

- tendon / ligament / cartilage

- calcific tendonitis shoulder

- Pellegrini-Steida lesion MCL

Pathology

Deposited around chondrocytes & into avascular portion of CT