chronische Anämie

Young adult

with a thick skull. Lateral radiograph of the skull shows widening of the diploic space, thinning of the inner and outer tables of the skull, and an overall hair-on-end appearance with sparing of the occipital bone.The diagnosis was thalassemia.

Radiological

review of skull lesions. Chronic anaemia. Sagittal head CT (a) depicts widening of the diploic space (thick arrows). Axial T1-weighted (b), axial T2-weighted (c) and sagittal T1-weighted (d) images portray widening of the diploic space with generalised T1 and T2 marrow hypointensity (arrowheads) consistent with red marrow hyperplasia in this patient with sickle-cell anaemia