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. E...
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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 Etiology congenital achondroplasia Dow...
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Hyperostosis frontalis interna (MRI)

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 07 May 2008
74% complete
MRI
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Meningioma with florid hyperostosis

  Diagnosis probable
Frank Gaillard
Published 28 May 2008
53% complete
CT
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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

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 19 Apr 2009
83% complete
CT
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Gunshot wound to head

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 24 Apr 2009
69% complete
X-ray
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Unilateral coronal synostosis

  Diagnosis certain
Michael Sargent
Published 28 May 2009
71% complete
CT
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Paget disease - skull

  Diagnosis probable
Frank Gaillard
Published 03 Nov 2009
60% complete
X-ray
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Wormian bones

  Diagnosis certain
Angela Byrne
Published 11 Nov 2009
56% complete
CT
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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

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 20 Dec 2009
70% complete
CT X-ray
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Sarcoidosis - skull

  Diagnosis probable
Angela Byrne
Published 13 Jan 2010
53% complete
CT X-ray
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Pott puffy tumor

  Diagnosis almost certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 17 Jan 2010
71% complete
CT
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Transosseous venous channel - skull

  Diagnosis almost certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 17 Jan 2010
50% complete
CT
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Normal skull

  Diagnosis not applicable
Frank Gaillard
Published 22 Jan 2010
16% complete
X-ray
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Sagittal synostosis and scaphocephaly

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 24 Jan 2010
59% complete
CT
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Skull - remains unknown

  Diagnosis not applicable
Frank Gaillard
Published 23 Feb 2010
16% complete
X-ray
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Chondrosarcoma - occipital condyle

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 12 Mar 2010
92% complete
CT MRI

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