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Benign Skull Tumors: Multimedia

Author: Draga Jichici, MD, FRCP, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology and Critical Care Medicine, McMaster University, Canada
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Updated: Oct 13, 2009

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Media file 1: Composite CT scan, MRI, and angiogram of a symptomatic ossifying fibroma with extensive involvement of the skull base in a 12-year-old girl whose primary symptom was exophthalmos and loss of vision bilaterally.

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Composite CT scan, MRI, and angiogram of a symptomatic ossifying fibroma with extensive involvement of the skull base in a 12-year-old girl whose primary symptom was exophthalmos and loss of vision bilaterally.

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Media file 2: Lateral skull radiograph of a 73-year-old patient with a slow-growing nontender skull lesion. Note the typical honeycomb appearance.

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Lateral skull radiograph of a 73-year-old patient with a slow-growing nontender skull lesion. Note the typical honeycomb appearance.

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Media file 3: Head CT scan of a 73-year-old patient with a slow-growing nontender skull lesion shows a well-defined nonenhancing lytic lesion with calcification and honeycomb appearance.

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Head CT scan of a 73-year-old patient with a slow-growing nontender skull lesion shows a well-defined nonenhancing lytic lesion with calcification and honeycomb appearance.

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Media file 4: Sagittal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) section of the brain of a 73-year-old patient with a slow-growing nontender skull lesion showing a nonenhancing soft tissue mass. This lesion proved to be a hemangioma.

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Sagittal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) section of the brain of a 73-year-old patient with a slow-growing nontender skull lesion showing a nonenhancing soft tissue mass. This lesion proved to be a hemangioma.

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Media file 5: Lateral skull radiograph of a 17-year-old adolescent male with a painless slow-growing mass. The single round lytic lesion was found to be an epidermoid.

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Lateral skull radiograph of a 17-year-old adolescent male with a painless slow-growing mass. The single round lytic lesion was found to be an epidermoid.

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Media file 6: Fibrous dysplasia involving the sphenoid sinus and pterygoid plates as well as the sella. This is an asymptomatic lesion; observation was recommended.

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Fibrous dysplasia involving the sphenoid sinus and pterygoid plates as well as the sella. This is an asymptomatic lesion; observation was recommended.

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Media file 7: Head CT scan of a 78-year-old woman with Paget disease. Note the cotton wool appearance of the lesion, with varying degrees of bone formation and no clear edges. Observation was recommended.

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Head CT scan of a 78-year-old woman with Paget disease. Note the cotton wool appearance of the lesion, with varying degrees of bone formation and no clear edges. Observation was recommended.

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Keywords

skull, tumor, aneurysmal bone cyst, bone-forming tumor, chondroma, chondroblastoma, chondromyxoid fibroma, connective tissue tumor, desmoplastic fibroma, dermoid, encephalocele, eosinophilic granuloma, epidermoid, fibrous dysplasia, giant cell granuloma, Gardner's syndrome, Hand-Schüller-Christian disease, hemangioma, lymphangioma, Maffucci's syndrome, McCune-Albright's syndrome, meningoencephalocele, nonossifying fibroma, Ollier's syndrome, ossifying fibroma, osteoblastoma, osteoid osteoma, osteoma, pacchionian depression, venous lakes of the skull, xanthoma

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Benign Skull Tumors: Multimedia

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Composite CT scan, MRI, and angiogram of a symptomatic ossifying fibroma with extensive involvement of the skull base in a 12-year-old girl whose primary symptom was exophthalmos and loss of vision bilaterally.

Lateral skull radiograph of a 73-year-old patient with a slow-growing nontender skull lesion. Note the typical honeycomb appearance.

Head CT scan of a 73-year-old patient with a slow-growing nontender skull lesion shows a well-defined nonenhancing lytic lesion with calcification and honeycomb appearance.

Sagittal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) section of the brain of a 73-year-old patient with a slow-growing nontender skull lesion showing a nonenhancing soft tissue mass. This lesion proved to be a hemangioma.

Lateral skull radiograph of a 17-year-old adolescent male with a painless slow-growing mass. The single round lytic lesion was found to be an epidermoid.

Fibrous dysplasia involving the sphenoid sinus and pterygoid plates as well as the sella. This is an asymptomatic lesion; observation was recommended.

Head CT scan of a 78-year-old woman with Paget disease. Note the cotton wool appearance of the lesion, with varying degrees of bone formation and no clear edges. Observation was recommended.

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