Items tagged “skull”
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Cephalohematoma
Cephalohematomas are traumatic subperiosteal hematomas of the skull that are usually caused by birth injury. They are bound between the periosteum and cranium, and therefore cannot cross sutures. Being bound by a suture line distinguishes them from subgaleal hematoma, which can cross sutures.
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Platybasia
Platybasia is characterized by abnormal flattening of the skull base as defined as a base of skull angle over 143º.
Clinical presentation
Platybasia alone does not usually cause symptoms unless it is associated with basilar invagination 6.
Pathology
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congenital
achondroplasia
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Hyperostosis frontalis interna (MRI)
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07 May 2008
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Meningioma with florid hyperostosis
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28 May 2008
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Pott puffy tumor
Pott puffy tumor refers to a non-neoplastic complication of acute sinusitis. It is characterized by a primarily subgaleal collection, subperiosteal abscess, and osteomyelitis. It is usually related to the frontal sinus but is sometimes secondary to mastoid pathology.
Rarer etiologies include tr...
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Wormian bone
Wormian bones (also known as intrasutural bones) is the name given to the additional small bones sometimes found between the cranial sutures of the bones of the skull vault, most commonly in relation to the lambdoid suture. Some reserve the term Wormian bones to just the intrasutural bones proxi...
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Extradural hematoma
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19 Apr 2009
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Gunshot wound to head
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24 Apr 2009
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Unilateral coronal synostosis
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28 May 2009
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Paget disease - skull
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03 Nov 2009
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Wormian bones
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11 Nov 2009
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Osteoporosis circumscripta cranii
Osteoporosis circumscripta cranii, also known as osteolysis circumscripta, refers to discrete radiolucent regions of the skull on plain radiographs. They are often seen in context of the lytic (incipient-active) phase of Paget disease of the skull, but may be observed in other circumstances as w...
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Craniosynostosis
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20 Dec 2009
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Sarcoidosis - skull
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13 Jan 2010
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Pott puffy tumor
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17 Jan 2010
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Transosseous venous channel - skull
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17 Jan 2010
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Normal skull
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22 Jan 2010
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Sagittal synostosis and scaphocephaly
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24 Jan 2010
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Skull - remains unknown
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23 Feb 2010
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Chondrosarcoma - occipital condyle
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12 Mar 2010
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