Calvarial thickening

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Calvarial thickening can occur from a number of causes. These include

idiopathic
chronic ventricular shunting¹
antiepileptics
- phenytoin³
osteopetrosis ²
fibrous dysplasia
acromegaly
anaemias (largely associated with massive haematopoiesis)
Paget disease
hyperparathyrodism
certain sclerosing bone dysplasias
- hyperostosis corticalis generalisata ⁵
  - van Buchem disease
- osteopetrosis
- Truswell-Hansen disease (sclerosteosis)
- Worth disease
- Nakamura disease
cerebral arteriovenous malformations ⁴: rare

~~-<li><a href="/articles/paget-disease-of-bone-2">Paget disease</a></li>~~
+<li><a href="/articles/paget-disease-bone">Paget disease</a></li>
~~-<li><a title="Sclerotic skull lesions" href="/articles/sclerotic-skull-lesion">sclerotic skull lesions</a></li>~~
+<li><a href="/articles/sclerotic-skull-lesion">sclerotic skull lesions</a></li>
~~-<li><a href="/articles/hyperostosis-of-skull">hyperostosis of skull</a></li>~~

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