Skull vault thickening
Paget disease
(bone) • Paget disease of the skull - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Teenager with
a seizure disorder on anti-seizure medication. Axial CT without contrast of the brain shows diffuse thickening of the diploic spaces in the skull.The diagnosis was calvarial thickening due to phenytoin usage.
Calvarial
thickening • Calvarial thickening from chronic ventricular shunting - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Calvarial
thickening • Calvarial thickening from chronic phenytoin use - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Osteopetrosis
• Osteopetrosis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
McCune-Albright
syndrome • Fibrous dysplasia - polyostotic form - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Pituitary
macroadenoma • Acromegaly - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Calvarial
thickening • Thalassemia - hair on end sign - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Extramedullary
hematopoiesis • Thalassemia - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Hyperostosis
frontalis interna • Hyperostosis frontoparietalis - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Calvarial
thickening • Chronic shunting and calvarium thickening - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Calvarial thickening can occur from a number of causes. These include:
- idiopathic
- chronic ventricular shunting
- antiepileptics
- phenytoin
- osteopetrosis
- fibrous dysplasia
- acromegaly
- anemias (largely associated with massive hematopoiesis)
- Paget disease
- hyperparathyroidism
- certain sclerosing bone dysplasias
- hyperostosis corticalis generalisata
- osteopetrosis
- Truswell-Hansen disease (sclerosteosis)
- Worth disease
- Nakamura disease
- cerebral arteriovenous malformations : rare
- Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome
See also
Siehe auch:
- Hyperostosis frontalis interna
- Osteopetrose
- Hyperostosis frontoparietalis
- Verdickungen der Schädelkalotte bei langer Phenytoin-Einnahme
und weiter:
Assoziationen und Differentialdiagnosen zu Verdickungen der Schädelkalotte:
Verdickungen
der Schädelkalotte bei langer Phenytoin-Einnahme