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

Young adult
with sickle cell disease and a headache. Axial (above left), coronal (above right) and sagittal (below) CT without contrast of the skull shows diffuse massive thickening of the diploic space of the skull. The diagnosis was calvarial thickening due to marrow hyperplasia in a patient with sickle cell disease.
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
- kraniofaziale fibröse Dysplasie
- bilaterale parietale Ausdünnung Schädelkalotte
- Hyperostosis frontoparietalis
- muskuloskelettale Manifestationen bei Sichelzellanämie
- Verdickungen der Schädelkalotte bei langer Phenytoin-Einnahme
und weiter:


muskuloskelettale
Manifestationen bei Sichelzellanämie
Verdickungen
der Schädelkalotte bei langer Phenytoin-Einnahme